Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 984a95ffcb60c5b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-25 05:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28d42c1823d59158bb7f4497ffe9eda5 SHA-1: 04cc239ce0d388cca1269786757f74fd654b900e SHA-256: 984a95ffcb60c5b31d64b75e176908dfe9598b452e499d32fde355957d27866b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on compromised WordPress sites suggests an attempt to leverage legitimate infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/dukewo.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6218b650bd59608192fc01d38802358/febipuxevinobazeteze.pdf
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/28444618676.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50edff61721cd7fb677738a9d23e0929/wovagowabevexibug.pdf
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/51919114392.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15449ee163---rimekemibabituwenewazudu.pdf
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/fuzirujifumorewewa.pdf
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/159700061160af80925e414.pdf
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/8472786564.pdf
    • https://superpart.com/files/97636262133.pdf
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49192145904.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/31445949554.pdf
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makigojubinaseg.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d0132a706fe5bbdb414fe50f0df616/58441778779.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6545a17f11---54392731168.pdf
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefibi.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/xumido.pdf
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2bfe3adpffrh4runarlh9evj1/gibuvipileletoti.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075919da676e---23329890355.pdf
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wewutifelofesa.pdf
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/85767457743.pdf
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/bepifuzogumolitosafo.pdf
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90172292141.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=anime+legend+of+the+blue+wolves
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad47183ba9da0af86ee5e43c449ee78/fonugix.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c673.bin
b16a3c4ec9a0773cc99afc09d3d00e81069395956066a980657dabb5eb1e6d5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC673 16556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109b7.bin
78064df9d53de4a331adad870494cf6145ad4443726ecb2b7301d907abbf347c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B7 10912 bytes