Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84ee99a4c70fe843…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 410d81e6f65a7d01e6c1ec651e55557d SHA-1: f4b3072206bee670eb0269f5fe1174245b8c6feb SHA-256: 84ee99a4c70fe8433fcb501b4ffc3c7e0a4af325f3edcf076f7649a86828f558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are compromised WordPress uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/nusesir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/bisonivuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aeb2f05c98---jawedamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/76949167180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/93654582883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/25018791774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/nugaxonebopafade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/28495506690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obkladacstvikolar.com/content/43413696669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/23227899361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/59229297144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/tipokitesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65804872564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/58475254184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/70700279227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/daxawunevomexipafupowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/juzojikokofaratasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujenosobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29cee8c606ac4e1d96e3991dbfb783c8/758041068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatekspb.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/12790870894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/danakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a6e66328b---fesojumalaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/sotusosofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/20259985617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+switch+from+iphone+to+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://b2cdemo.tickets.com/content/files/napalurok.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_off0000dc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7D 17356 bytes
SHA-256: d1d1d94f16e65f9a1a95d71fa3df60d48ac0a479d2eb2397c20c998799c6af35
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 11172 bytes
SHA-256: a0f4f877939e0f39f53845c765b894cb16c007c4710c96dc130db43935efb511
font_02_sfnt_off00012390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12390 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1