Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84f0d1aad74939a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:29:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f7a620ef27fd64510e8fa44112761582 SHA-1: 75a29435c4a64e8e244269b615e20f7cf9fe150f SHA-256: 84f0d1aad74939a667aa74e4f9edc2878db4785af9e54efeddccd900470c7342
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a heuristic indicating a security bypass instruction further supports malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kmspico+office+2013+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/4972759572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/72026200564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7522dcaa5e3b33654be80de8e95ce174/47508253037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5b3648116---faxujebufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3680a77c93---770223703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/79920146232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotofolliasanlazzaro.it/userfiles/files/sevawunowuvukopatube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a18c7e76296813139a114a122d773b/wopikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077kid2a58jlrvi439ohp9v6m3/filatezisowumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021513123277548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/18940359181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bfb7d458548282cf20a2f2fd4221057/64214760260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9aa211670b55dfb90c9b669a96760c1/forikivepatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe8cc01925---puxogurijekogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dad045556b---70416936385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3f0556243---kobuveroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6fejtcseif4e2nu1lu4p5s42e/18642617566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8805ba2f12---vopepelarepipazubujuvato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqnhhg7c3q43ldhv2ohko0vc77/sirapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/peterisojosumizifiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/satozetivepivugipuvorujux.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_off0000e3e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E7 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 46925d530e47341eb973490735ad67370eb35bb37460f0c827b9b99245fef6de
font_01_sfnt_off000111f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F7 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 8bbfa2418e9f2a97f4227d580c5b894a85a099b419f91e789dd725177f92a695
font_02_sfnt_off00012c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1