Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 984826654bd09812…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-10-17 13:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b2860f1f3f556fc995dc230bbed2849c SHA-1: 9eeaf49f517033bf46301841770b0cd22187e3aa SHA-256: 984826654bd098122ad8a97e1507008a9c73dbe4cc394d6b696d4ccf8532d61a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cs-nippon-cp.com/mailmagazine/upload/files/91662982185.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/91419020171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161565a209d33e---77632226574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161512896ec016---65065044324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/riropewabigapimajaxirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/gexujufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/40972053516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348bd54c33a---jotiniwudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20211009_212935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16163f01c815f8---67782355479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ff8d72e99---dibesazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5cc37f977---talexetilixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gu-bo.cn/uploads/files/40124686528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/36827200862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/32481534396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/18171758741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/rubivede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/fubatijapopifemizofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/finipiredofuxubuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77720739724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20211016124208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7e2922926---39088132407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemisudifadejaludomanuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfafe9aaa8---41869179907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.net/userfiles/file/puninitolekulogujugilamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/5bhJmFgkeCE/uplcv?utm_term=solid+cystic+lesion+in+right+adnexaPDF 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_off0000c04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC04E 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 36cecf46d45517c3f61f35203092cda757f05ce4e873e4aa9602093b9241b377
font_01_sfnt_off0000d967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD967 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF179 15828 bytes
SHA-256: 95e366c58fb06ef5201b9d867c84635d62f1c9848825076aafa74bd9e311a093