Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b84623f949e3c892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-10-04 16:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bc2b57ddab20d9212cec4744f3326179 SHA-1: c89cbd333cf641588e49df901efc0afbc12cb550 SHA-256: b84623f949e3c892c060bf8317c7cf3d797b1f075c7b7fe422a99186bb290f35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://amsuatrust.org/survey/userfiles/files/bewutorasopolonovitades.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/dejopiragirinuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufepurujoxoguvisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74d492ba72ccdc29c09b0d5a1a51901/30771524338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/naziwerodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/746466238613c3ad2aaa15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140909b12ac3---17043222302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/60681867729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/kefusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109072123597768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/lubifuxisorizilelugivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b6e7041f73e2b39882df620b9fd2d2/pazafunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/wegerowiferoxizixeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/savilizanove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehayemek.net/upload/ckfinder/files/30980953839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3120a11c5e2589dcd0faf970956f48b/gefinaxeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/73984890308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/66705156221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/dojafudabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju4vqjvcuth5ufdo8ustro0cd6/zasifufowulefuratedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/98131900844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutoxowobonedexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=carbohydrates+definition+biologyPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/94845139922.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_off0000c290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC290 18020 bytes
SHA-256: f407e6a8ad0ca58b409bb67279d216ed81be2c306d77e177c932aaba2f2a84df
font_01_sfnt_off0000efcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E3 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9fd6d2bc49e24281878751feee718951597f5b1225b51432302751bf52563736

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