Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f84223b783f652bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-06-06 01:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c12ff01462ff37d49bd8b524e083f15d SHA-1: d882abbf961fada444892ec33a2619fe90a7b1f9 SHA-256: f84223b783f652bc3100d819946e842b2ad0ba84af0577c77dadea78bbe8d6af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on WordPress installations and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=present+simple+present+continuous+present+perfect+exercises+pdf+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885ba80fde9---85861986991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b7e3ea2747c7796391d1abcf95fccd9/19935940964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd507f9d83d4500c03a64315a2130915/kexexuvanorosamiwato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0073413f2c6a9cf5d33b9de02d3eb276/51947836326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f231a7824---ponotezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e708a88b4ea541b99c10636d840c8b/dunafotejedemogogifaxawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/31687323757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4df1c3a43---52300292197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/40664525508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/tetagememutosigenibakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2a2199221---70325106292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/58907320239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/zovemifoxeturanimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6df45f155---43001099867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd12hkq3od6d3j3lergv3f9j3d/pisebuxezedaselow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c34ef16e983b05689cb082ec32d42b1/vogopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/zaveporuvopozirorukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441f91a2bb4e2c74f7b9ca9a98c09530/bekitemufaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE116 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 085a88e99d83eec3c12df280378b9c16cec85810782918fa43e74cea741c6f2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f36c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36C 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 077d344f93aa1f6cb7106530280c22056ecad8a283ed91e9e61106ddd653b332
font_02_sfnt_off00011847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11847 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3