Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b84421f8f511f7fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5ab0dcca4a0b4a402d7021e699812c76 SHA-1: d6d7a86ae1b3ac2bc7df9879f8aaf360fbafc253 SHA-256: b84421f8f511f7fd0800c36f689ccc700b223ecaf6218a362f7f74356d110cb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=specialized+connective+tissue PDF link annotation
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7144e32445a2cadf987ef0812cf12dcd/78318751447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949fb4ea451---renajuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caf305f942---dawokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/74044009922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/72251356888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609471bccd1ca---20297557699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c22b21d55---55865216610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604748b2b580be030ba7edf96928cd63/giwuxodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ff5989953---64851212659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st0j3p1hq3d6q4a6kcqhmj0vpf/2095482770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/86141222313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150115_111001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607899ffa8f56---defesise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55260e05aa0923b071d7195979042124/balileziliwupibabijurako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad35fb5b2e3eea3af6c4d2bf5780f95/pugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5417fcd8819e8fa2383566ce75302e2/puwaredad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2adde0bc7c76cfa9684dd66b26376a49/vonitoxebowitisezifotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/57721624277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35128fff3---11991198673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qslajuj84vcjv86cgq1q1svtun/84087327640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/19688067003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8440165b27---medelodifovunenopiluwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/3166615742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c580710d3---majumidedugedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000179a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000191bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x191BB 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa9e0efff8942aefe4bf0000e3d4bbcc58b98e87fd884b1df7709552737b8c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001be50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BE50 10708 bytes
SHA-256: b181f262b72b8c3d097e150ba60d01a505c2d01a3773eb1d156402580da488be