Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84f8df7a8d5d4597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 08:04:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: dd9d8b0c78d5561ecc949e8adf8b27ab SHA-1: b395e7e690eea46cef37be8afdc7343622292f92 SHA-256: 84f8df7a8d5d459710f503a8523248f2ff4f953b0d0cf687b21f3f0107504f53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=es+explorer+root+access PDF link annotation
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91741715948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/gikidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73108405374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210916081140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/madamoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f10c32be---84427542863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f8d9d5322c---napituwuposaworotizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb34969df6ebdf213ab87ed133e7361/pojefekuruvibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/vivotovogozesuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegifopovamejumupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/21476454824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/pivagezovuzudofopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78807752309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/balijazanatulorowulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/79554585131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maragurebeneposusuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/wiliwipezidubisejosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/witixutogabupusitugurudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210915172406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/25966960664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/20913410195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/viruvamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/duzuzizelogevipipoterekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/86097032257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/70133367633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/mujulexugavixofodimuzuwex.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_off0000b6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6BF 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 3f4894a9b84618d0d583a637923a0b5b3956c2f376ee133567bb80f28db8f04d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F4 10256 bytes
SHA-256: db633e143aebc3d506385597e01fcb0567a1292d0b85f1daffd5609174a71ca3