Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 884c069e73371dc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a2fdc4726d9306d2c486783a6d9a1319 SHA-1: 083e3bc048421b3bc1be7e081e36ac660039f3f3 SHA-256: 884c069e73371dc076cefb246783392dbe5b503f2c0a8cd20a668c0900a85a6d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+stories+view+privately
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109070915418646.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613870329b01b---tenetulirapewipumokabizit.pdf
    • http://dymenahealthcare.com/upload/fckeditor/file/833541230.pdf
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/zudavixarudetodukamu.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133952710bc4---41880212918.pdf
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/buluxizaxuzuk.pdf
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/dikoxixitu.pdf
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/45916548792.pdf
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/disebudubokabutig.pdf
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/wunimujabebopani.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1qp0d7kd5p5piiac9a2tr5m0/jurepaja.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gntmphphsf66mnb1tnisrlhhdg/zugezabiwufoniza.pdf
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/xibitobe.pdf
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_51C53793E26B72A2.pdf
    • http://jutaek.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210906152041.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7ss9kb5o4vp995ofenqanivb0/27633189140.pdf
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibonagijab.pdf
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/70332187045.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acpo7008hui1slfcse2e7fec16/23792526171.pdf
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/38256983555.pdf
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61373176037.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131acef7cc2d---4939518491.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c254.bin
4f2409aa88bf6b583f4c224dcbf42814dd3cebad97f75ea1cff0e3a51ef31032
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC254 16380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8ea.bin
ec5ab71c63097415183a21e00a74c4f5bfd98d5e3dfc23060f9c4dd9bf85d232
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EA 22676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111d8.bin
2a8974d885d60eb702bf7024733268a9e8d956d19a13ae699c2792d17345d239
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D8 10812 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012ad1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD1 16792 bytes