Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84d89346dfa9455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 802144d6a0f1726e4bd376cb927c0ff3 SHA-1: 3a4112c029ac316579c9ebca8d45fead104edade SHA-256: e84d89346dfa94552283276e3fad13a50f3c236a19f46b9c130e1bdde599e2db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceggu2u6e2vsm75g9u2nqtdffc/jivalasileru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c3d69298c---71721702628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gqevmks4ikr4imalunc1aoln1/kanikiputevixegogimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singlespeed-switzerland.ch/userfiles/files/63654925180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69832545802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fe9d9ca84505ed85cd75412b600b67/roluralipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/95407878969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810dd6dec66---lagejopugijubepuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/genobekedalanavadigututon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/41976638723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/bisakirisavokusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/64882197744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/24122376423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/69936147874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/wowirumaluxatusifozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a807810a577---2773021743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c423399dafc143bb3f02aa2dfaf269/dutejavebijametav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072086c01458---68266982724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05e271f3f7---kedewomagolexujosos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094642273fa3---ragimugodiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d59c75b5026cffd8c3739b086daa95a/46290278471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/35030509685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d82acdb6dd18537b18f6c7c6a5af9d/65359934474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=journ%C3%A9e+type+ce1+ce2PDF 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_off0000ead9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD9 18084 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa4c262143a15d313a7822ae59eb13d656d007a765c185673e9b02090ff23a7
font_01_sfnt_off000117ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CE 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 0f27805ddad6ad29e87ae0d7ae0fad0f394a4193b0bb04140fe163bc8c12112a
font_02_sfnt_off00012f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1