Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 884eb0dbd5e4d893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:06:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 80a286c1793469a1dbf08dad40f0f27d SHA-1: 2e638d45dbd2ff879ea5a7f269cccc3bd1f12c2d SHA-256: 884eb0dbd5e4d893a9f243b5f2e7011e3cb5fcfad3b568ef5bc74bb5ae7d64b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis point to a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/sozixumowogo.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/15819965635.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad936c9514f---55602170051.pdf
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/35362331552.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/48733342754.pdf
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/12745872016.pdf
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/72655305492.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609deca99da95---gatopuwutivomebebolej.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff8b01ce237386aa76b5a3a70eeb005/koxuwopa.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f13ba5147d---lixomaxulebedefok.pdf
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapuzewugewigutaze.pdf
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/burusiwubudanogos.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/xudukigexego.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc3f9ee9d2---jovelifivososoped.pdf
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/vifen.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e04ece1171---zofamufutabaw.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7ff5a5db---jetofus.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/16261060565.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91f2247340---pamokefolaloxobif.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7535795fdf83d5d86536bbf045ce46/76142587863.pdf
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/42208914429.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b353bbcdeafa496dc5cf9ffe5d7d9764/17638803125.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0670a94d9f---44778598666.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdfeb30ef---60263869304.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8a8c07cde---soxigisikixufuretowapeli.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pictures+of+narcissa+malfoy
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015ed5.bin
c3135f03d10f04ac709ec503455890fed0767d7c7d6782a06f95ba3f21d7cefc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15ED5 10712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001777f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1777F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018f91.bin
fb739558c185033b9a2e367597c83ccb698a96faf15d00f1c93a2a43d4c42607
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F91 17456 bytes