Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 884c5ad42c46f90f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 55ab06379d641ee77ced38de115e54cf SHA-1: dfd0c4c3cdbde62554da59d8e8a9934ce71cc1cb SHA-256: 884c5ad42c46f90ffff90f959efb47f4116f60d11773d401bda5ec4d4734b419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites that host further PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves to redirect users to malicious content hosted on various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://sambelteri.com/contents//files/59477995551.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e27b6ff2dfa---44964073750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ba2cdb6d1a96ca57f564fca5474b1f/11796851473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75404e00dc92096a8e590941ca5d022b/leguxigejonalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadd701966a---12623427050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/zusurekebaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/diwalagugoferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/turibavogizuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/ratepofagixobudodaruvaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c497aa55cc67c05b4c58a3386036f5b/21890147857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f91d32abc50fe1a386d74fdea0fa0c2/53341815108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87484309272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84214192934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/batejofopuzenubufuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca53bb1313---livowowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e45f7a8e2---92916403043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/15800973317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870bd4a1b87---togaxuziboxenupinuxedize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c6001a5e6---fabelawozano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ccd60a2da580a32b6ac65f600cb771/18057857503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51nfs2ik8hjtuur983mogombm6/telixusogejudelupisemivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/sefugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/lejasazebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/navutatonerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/guxiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=obstetric+hemorrhage+pdf+2019PDF 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_off0000c59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC59E 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 72382360d3925bbddb2108025889c4676280bf4deabf8cd2c3ee425e2be7a05f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF2 11544 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0d2ae085a06d0a91149800e40b82775afbebd3165293d1f40b2a772cdefdf7