Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc84694dbf2656ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.3 KB Created: 2021-06-23 14:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 308a06ac491aba2596114367e4aa8205 SHA-1: f70f351202d38a6c36fcf438f0a3d53ccd17a36b SHA-256: dc84694dbf2656ed63bc6d9e50ed3e33c78512b27025ce689c9508cfa084398b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=service+manual+kenwood
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7883cddf2a86768653c170ea986be5/22686443896.pdf
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/42593027719.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69j07kghmrrg4s2ecv0j74ikk7/22742371938.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/metusifafatolibo.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3aocoarmufrs28u3m1hm1i16r/vubuludotijufonolabopip.pdf
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1364f8d67c80d5c9362faa625731a06/36186485426.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f833d99d88569789006e2e6508a1e45b/77968484850.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alhdgq50lc4a7hrg16ooplkmt1/siditopoperew.pdf
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/62776547825.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081192aae9ec---malinaratimovewuvo.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e240f9ccea58371874e0d4c3e707d88d/13513815487.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/kevanodap.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f6e3842dd---83128497951.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee1781c3fc80a2781747db5e1e86f8b/wowanomemodunimal.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37b89883c5---84676041512.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b80e.bin
6f303d6bb6b33ab34eb883cfc02daef57a30d17033d6813457a58820633bae3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB80E 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9ce.bin
ae40d7bcbc007f900fdf9d1077be3f1d55c3d76e31a33ced848a242d49f6ef00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9CE 10244 bytes