Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84f46a0ac4ea2391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bb7666cdf70975ad0533d612ac77beea SHA-1: 4af911c6a6ab2fd62599c9a61acea7359a7d0a7a SHA-256: 84f46a0ac4ea239145e58bea730121c7a96621b2c389130cd78b34c34d064e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or SEO manipulation campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/33817938807.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/61369586555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665a9c99af---25170536725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/nowavixuvewituxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/menujenuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/kotutimiwagojeguxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867c2e71c8---lutusarisewepiromesegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/buremogabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/lozasimofemufile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/89458549436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/86696465794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608630bdd37ff---jejogemuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f256e3f89d---42905266823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/28438998728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/69738548221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54ee403f38ff756554bcf07f064a37c/vijarabuxeded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/52916780203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinilivokajasegavare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffc71c4dbcecf1bd344cd7fd187c6e5/buposirusidutekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca22c4f9b1---45960614010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf77ab7fdb8ab94c8ad6c037a5c038b0/notepaxadotavisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c817e7e992433e063bec0db174b45cba/13333979401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ababe67f4---rapufopodoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96438291308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/bumovemaguguxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=elements+of+engineering+electromagnetics+6th+edition+solutionsPDF 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B3 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 465d92cfc06964a8fc512b3be76a343ec3797f6007dba34606f3f9504c13baa1
font_01_sfnt_off000102bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD4 11176 bytes
SHA-256: f4eaa0be4d9638e7338cf2e49afc173bb0019a58abea367ab16eff2322d5f5ba
font_03_sfnt_off00013486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13486 8104 bytes
SHA-256: 98b987ac7a7c3f8f098768c818951dcbbfe49c2252729a08138ec5187094f0bb