Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84b94ea1bf4def2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-05-19 08:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5a104c0f5a9feccd75a09140a6185ac0 SHA-1: e4d215f13545ef8cd2a5431a22fe158f3391e264 SHA-256: 84b94ea1bf4def2c512aa87ec5ed0cea290babce5653d9db59870c536118056f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to printer issues, likely intended to trick users into visiting these compromised sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c193e31f8---76989579346.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/491e1595cb31290ee46b5a8cb35443e2/xafufigagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c31ac62c3---6451303945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608484022631b---58954028264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2eade9bc8---madosavuxojuwobotesonupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/sesudukadejagapesuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6f82f845ba1e6cde52cd19decfbbaf/56101132946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/wirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d498f3kugfvmsigo3ht0lt56/jofizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4240eeea---wadobopewexafivinorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834273efa74930a2ab530e2834d64944/jibafodatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7aa33aeabe198888cff4e26d1ffbadf/3069723459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cfdd806c3c7bf3f47b1116a88055e25/vejezitumosojelitazurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090befdbbd0b---25933756764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608270e658859---82332316459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/tujoxitejilakajajava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=brother+mfc-j6520dw+wont+turn+onPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C5 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 2580f1f8ff0e8fab9e1735e718c9d64c5782a0fecd8ff4bbe6ace2816c073e33
font_01_sfnt_off000107f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F9 10916 bytes
SHA-256: a8667bf167b9ce625c7d957ec1bbd2c9a9929bb7b219ed5d30ec167165f977a0