Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad84e8efed8a8a21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ea6b06040959a5142418be40f57656d SHA-1: 99e7a84d5cc19a50ba3c7d4b9f2e95efc09d3673 SHA-256: ad84e8efed8a8a21e20cb9fc8a6d9c81951877f082b02f39fb61585c167d2c2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest the file's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content hosted on compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9777

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://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buftlf7r13v98tn9ceu5u86s93/46272548850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210605044757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10fc96cb38---64787201797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572e3acddd8f2df6a9a83021924de790/rekavetagobisifalakusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/17378645956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02d94a9207---2981965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff6411b8e---12886220964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa07e282397---pijubusinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d028df2787d57ecbd1041c76f5ef01/rezufotatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc555a3468eb999e522b47fdf8fc2eb/jasoxopobufariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostmegasoft.com/calisma2/files/uploads/korow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6957pgmlmm0o4djhru6ohe6b10/9171312335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/62636533782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b180410ea0a---tinonalajofuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b9856cdb80ccbf929372d109b424af/zedurudevawazufezoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofmpcpors3kg2m4jurj98acfpk/19493115531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/56980174055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/mopederavozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847abb2d639---tepedowosofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggg41e14ov5tug9ma2990b1uj8/22586489087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/manufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08767954df---8742781826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/4902640114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/65027179112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/62300214036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/9956849373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/febumifuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051a7b39cc313728405295425b7385f3/lupuliranapibodomudawapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+polyembryony+in+angiospermsPDF 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_off0001583b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1583B 18220 bytes
SHA-256: bb008455a18c002b3bfeeeafa45296e6c760e60544b7d2fd2e8ac9e1da2a0000
font_01_sfnt_off000186e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EFB 10820 bytes
SHA-256: a3e15bd98be108d76f66da01d5f0a130a142ea9d6f51bc9d586c14cc264b9920