Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d84ececd6dfa4360…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f14e6eb9f41ddbe8dbb6c982843ed281 SHA-1: f70bb390a0315da7d8646ba1a11dd250df9bd9d9 SHA-256: d84ececd6dfa4360953522f30fade4305e6b1cc6c53c9316139a64aa2b103a26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm is a common tactic for distributing malicious content or leading users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e04b00f21d---8470655287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d8b8eb02aedbd9b71cbfb3aa57912ad/karapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0338162a5537001a8f96ba3736475e06/kasuzima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc8bqkdpb34uo9hmdobrqit4bd/nibajivatikelugupatosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fcce90374---4151495027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04bbeb4ef9---naxudipapoxufegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab5990d024---21759826082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/63498726588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/veag9o5bg1k3gukajb5h8koa41/3838505803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43d165de338cf7616881766c6d0e9f8/58491532477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60f5564850---tusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/96476786196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/5007914440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608379626bb10---62496135402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080446be7194---36367135483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/vibagazoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14e98eaa41---62273216483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/14855901700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8c296f300---82297116994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/57591085821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04dff37bc8e8c398f0f04e58fd0dc8bd/wejusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd77b07403eaec854b814f15c975eb47/32022241146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a2fa8a3c---rezufirabivufababo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85b7d2619b---jupiwabobevivopilomexofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pears+in+fridge+or+counterPDF 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_off0000f492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF492 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 41244f41a085c343d9742a80cef717b334b64db16530ddb4dc5eb2029c0b6812
font_01_sfnt_off00010d11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D11 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 7a0c7386445a46b568dd82b5bb2127565c709d0b4277217f2c04b000f0dd7689
font_02_sfnt_off00013bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1