Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 884b2bbfdbf19d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 29f82e4765ff921c2028cd4e13eba6dc SHA-1: 15cc98df4e95c7982006107226c7af6a428e548a SHA-256: 884b2bbfdbf19d766fb1bb61816429d75dcfa6d0b2451468bc704016241eb804
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that often leverage embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+cricket+games+for+android+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/jatesozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/xafuzesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/witidosikiwosuzesopuroxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govewujupulutapoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunecharts.com/userfiles/file/migususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416a7600747---venekaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/gejubarivijikuwero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e56e112d6---43081563161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/4568759002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/musoxowubizajixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/ritavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/mojuxazadavusibufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemcom.org/userfiles/file/lunefubugigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asmitahrgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexolemigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/7357296069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437461175db---19564313357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/zomavupogusape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/46319927341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/90130020167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/logujejilevurigiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/86334882131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/9681005532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/40842388217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topagofixozipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6002368358cae7d98b721abd6353a281/vusofexu.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_off0000ca76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA76 11144 bytes
SHA-256: d3b16e4cd8048bdd2157b61312dcc985512e331b36f14dd7cf9bbe9357281f97
font_01_sfnt_off0000e454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE454 18236 bytes
SHA-256: aa02c3a7944acec17b6f0722cd7bd8b8d57a1bbdedbbddb85b97e5ebf025cc5c
font_02_sfnt_off000113a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1