Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a84d45eceac60aae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 14:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 959114ad6b53a8af4f096905ae53357f SHA-1: cd7977713ba883fabef30b30b06241c746539c8b SHA-256: a84d45eceac60aae94fd4b7024d83ed4fe2bf07775945df52fc7d8ec253c0d3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL analysis point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://aporpeter.ro/userfiles/file/toxopopozamudogijuxov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399941a4bf0---duxatufabolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamwalibais.com/userfiles/file/betunimovewisafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/62281494967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/xigisefukudasoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/kipajobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3458ea705fd00e85c89e80af558a2a87/texapotifunowoxezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/rolezuwutoxotivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainanrup.longi.tw/uploadfiles/files/20210903_105901_3136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/zijitaxerowokalugigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eldorautomaticgates.com/UserFiles/file/wogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/motidodezitogorafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufilevujixuguzavixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/wawokijunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/5799886020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/zabixuxivevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/42459737905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/31144534427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electronicaindex.nl/images/uploads/30074583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/97061445020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/vulatokabisosojujoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micdelhi.in/userfiles/file/dowebasobetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/13786080744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cece232119---wegosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+joysticksPDF 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_off0000b3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3BA 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 87163ca17f24733c99dd010f1663aafded63777d135e3ba20cfda5cab3cca785
font_01_sfnt_off0000df4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4C 10600 bytes
SHA-256: e5daa7a68cbb191e2f5fc462060c3cb90f5a670f5c2ba892ac7949cf2ad78f6a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF795 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1