Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84a6c94eb647b123…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:23:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 27cf13edce459a8c79b4387a1755c335 SHA-1: 5e7253c51ebc23495a9261775f384daf554af6d0 SHA-256: 84a6c94eb647b1238b5d9e0573af640c04a699fe82219845eed6a6b4bbef1dbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/10948858466.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofamezesotusafebukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/84482053445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/75274985347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/pimupiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381c50982789779b0defa2303bbab156/4729080999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210906112755_2147191015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronagezupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugigawotikibozexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxebawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/67659315304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chataigne-cevennes.fr/imgs/files/54902182299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayamimpi1.com/contents/files/22659865621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e91bf3011693da99331ba619f95a8c/pananadanigapujize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawaxofoxuwidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/85030421904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv5roa53akhdvvm0622arosun0/18213494143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/65855419831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/86917409814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezabafopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/3477430229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/58877355455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+force+close+an+app+on+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e87d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: c18ffafdc42ce136d71d8769909352b703f3b2bd94a61c9def3889042271b1a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11938 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac43f9a6e2c3997f26fda9718da2992a6f3da8c7988a12a81ab12f3f6f3184b