Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84ff3016edc54ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 24acaca1aaa887758efb9c069238c73a SHA-1: 2225ed6fa51f431d0ef4453b474346e141b29359 SHA-256: 84ff3016edc54ac09e617db5cbc4b96b711f08e6203b65cc4b355680f63d2d68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users or for SEO poisoning. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51447565756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/tuwumemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowalstwwo.pl/public/cms/images/file/rufajeferevenokakixogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/zikulolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/daduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/pifutitozimibivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/file/65667244185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210913_222912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aafdd00f75139259a29e4b3fa9c2eb2/laburopixutowukoluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021090200574718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8314c825a1581fe540711f52d540f463/22891281477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/895ed9d871f97309811f8d3dace50135/16727385048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c019c1f16abd7a12d979ecc3ca52a2/nepetevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/kuzogewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823207f8185d7f6c474f7ed8ee50b2fb/jizifubemokotifigaputiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/moromepuxikazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362e5bd2bc4---wuxejewasebebegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/rupixagemegasufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/96138760177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feminella.ro/upload/fck/wusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/71448631584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0755d01a868c36998808f29ecb987706/lemanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10672973506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/riruzeduzorujekerasevusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiochiodo.eu/userfiles/files/23037973539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+beat+a+narcissist+at+its+own+gamePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE528 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3F 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 455aa527ccba9a7119bf2b704a4a99d66638740c7f61086a78ac5dbe25724dd8
font_02_sfnt_off000115fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FC 18484 bytes
SHA-256: 63ba2459c136e9ce5501baef60b103942aca540b5de9274ada1b99572164bfc0