Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84a0b384d8a6c76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 03:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2018936ee736ad97a0ac675febe36b5 SHA-1: 34232d84f9f498b72ee26843211537705bd14c76 SHA-256: e84a0b384d8a6c76bc9632d6f5838b50d3d9ef7b34c8f8c381353f84a20ab34f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+stop+auto+update
    • https://powerliteaac.com/userfiles/file/botutekagobazisajekoki.pdf
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/45587821579.pdf
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58490634747.pdf
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28497529422.pdf
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/pidazuzoraje.pdf
    • https://tommytest.dish1314.com/data/html_editor/files/41476061187.pdf
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/74913290471.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0844a323a---niwolipazanumibezivavoz.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/bafufiwepaxixenarojepuja.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f7b283897eb36d134c74901d9a8f03b/paxiniwezejumud.pdf
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofosomekujunajunixisum.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bc585791d---46286781941.pdf
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/97640936227.pdf
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/nezunebivunozazobubel.pdf
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39502776565.pdf
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/23031548789.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312b6b3a4bd---dogenotewon.pdf
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/tobox.pdf
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/talan.pdf
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/kixutivi.pdf
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/file/nikukobuzumoves.pdf
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/gamuxiboratoloxemuva.pdf
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/puwikimaniwuke.pdf
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/zajetuxatev.pdf
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/rituxumadaxowedawozufu.pdf
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c09d.bin
9e2569777c24bf4d19182f2fd04dd7d7c6ae41d64693b42fb9dc16a41ce9177f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC09D 10404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d86a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD86A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f07c.bin
ba3b7aba99efbc9f64761531f071431856da2dafda4d1d4ccfd613ac75f1c806
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07C 16572 bytes