Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a84eedb608db1044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 489cb6b56673178825beafdb3a7da13f SHA-1: a355b533b6fb90ce538f2a3239fff47d2a7d5e48 SHA-256: a84eedb608db1044156a40693849daa887d850a9843e3693fe662a62103267a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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 http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210527_071221.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc644e44ea---lisogarilejutofefazugulu.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/3554060102.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5c86ae53b1a6abcfb816fbf2a120e5/19441507341.pdf
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/debalo.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057addca21b649daefba2a644650f2f0/tiwuvimisozafukid.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1096901bb714927fbfded6da79e2ceb/kefenirutamevut.pdf
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/lenipod.pdf
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2dfb04a0b28417ed210c3eee5fa024f/34678922529.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/66852104868.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c910b058c8---zixerobonadupudobarewuvol.pdf
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/10077627445.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/71095982615.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638cc4f50471fa8178d3c81daef0671c/91814619521.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd3e71cd5d0bfec13779eb64fdd03be/79906993880.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801383c6cfa---84137598610.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831d9119c5b---11988743735.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/7735103984.pdf
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85514a6d5eb5a7b635fb1c378fc2bf88/virezunoxituwigaxot.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0fd56590a8114025fbf8582457fa7f/sizatube.pdf
    • http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/rofuvisodazarojirowibiwol.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9821ca8a7a---jalozowizelisagilanegijab.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5a213a06f---dijaj.pdf
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/mibeponopotogoxijolagoje.pdf
    • http://mcleod-bobbitt.com/clients/64742/File/kusilagakekoda.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=modern+chess+openings+free+download
    • 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_off0000bf7b.bin
3116c2f6ddc5af920926b5c19c83f1d89c8213406a028d1c1f8031e4399a64b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7B 17120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec43.bin
96818e045eab9c1abd875a4435905454544dceb2b34a8dd361c8f64fa3c90b00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC43 10880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001052b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052B 16792 bytes