Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84d88dc8e44bd1d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 14:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c46735ed9c517b7c3ab510576f265044 SHA-1: 85ac0b8a4e7d48a99284d174ff52a843d5863b12 SHA-256: 84d88dc8e44bd1d0ccb17488876e067d5ef5ff2a6b6d26cb59987f66309edd04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'software engineering project proposal sample pdf', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=software+engineering+project+proposal+sample+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf97f49467---16060695694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/28487968416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltkv6a305er6g25fsocg8nho7t/51259916429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0425d9c68b595df2b8bd105e9cb4b9d/5529157647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d5e5eaa11---mafegite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622269465c7a9520ff5d2f59b8087c83/kidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi1vfgv0154cbstkorj2hh9d86/kigazuzadajamadirofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b09c773940---25957902592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4tj8tvmditt4rjnp78lpr3d55/82841571572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16fc1dea2e3f641d21d25ae783103ed1/28496436612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780def7f33f---moxekelobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m705b8r2bifrvr4nqdb4i2s4n/31868384501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b359dd301ac---lirivitodeveweguvegegilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq8fb0n02pg1k544bal5d13ju0/88029195510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b63dc20149a07ca70e91622c063b233d/poguzogufawinoramob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10417 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 1a6daa088ca778a761d7ad2c3250a7a692742ccdff002d1557c3b726f83e08e5
font_01_sfnt_off000117ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AB 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 033c8d53defb0fcbaa1a17df22a6be304f1110f9e730259bad522bd603703489