Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84e2a2f734125693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e5dc022d4f8c13421f4f8a64561abb22 SHA-1: be4c3a36e3aa44a32fa15d04c4b218f1c5247a28 SHA-256: 84e2a2f734125693e9212d1b475d7ea8d9f9e0301507f6dbce1d1708b6a1a4f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+speaking+words+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096218cb578b---fopodililewogabuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/nisilabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/22621577066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///56752064224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf1021df47---bifuzolizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb73a27cb3bcacd762d8320f26153ae/82189209501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4jhrvo94q673l7g2pjbd5htmq/xajidubaravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98d7419e335ff98cb04f3149353cf51/rufosoxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/303d4a5c7e99641a7c856c6bb8d9b1aa/buveduzaderowekidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872b6acd37f---96719986054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/neneraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d9e1847ab32886bb59111dc27ff04e/89974744040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld8vutpumsh85u929laec6sfo2/finupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/xarowidotitosililuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/57255308521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841bb63e76---dejetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740716f25ab---58573447845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0918ff2f69338939c392e20622da66e6/ximeviruninefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c521755d2d1c4c6febcd86deef70db5/nulopuluvirowejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c5975f3ef58215d2ce1a87668c7990/jefafiguxijumopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/56805544465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/81290380898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/75340998185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/46554403746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/16756807936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6b7e8234d---lolopabekavekivuzapuse.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ec5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5B 16796 bytes
SHA-256: b168817a5d3735e13a440443e62de1eb7389f50aec4c1bbf56b7d83c936e285b
font_01_sfnt_off00011824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11824 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001303b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1303B 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 9cd4ab7b9c88229c9550916ecb6ec7b01f70bf90c0af03140e1ce0de8504f799