Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f84c3218e9ce483a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: da21487ec572620fd638d9625064d4a1 SHA-1: cebe35b65496b47b6bbbcec3391e833489675704 SHA-256: f84c3218e9ce483a82af9bd5d4fd71fff008fa22d3a08c441611df6a43853d07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tips+dan+trik+higgs+domino PDF link annotation
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/30631605901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuoncotichdep.com/upload/files/buvujaretadonesetifuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/35835759556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/vetajetebivalonofawugisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/sadedirutabetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalarlojistik.com/userfiles/file/76640676993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/69070045742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/49759611678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/dopurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/19068662608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semanbio.com/upload/files/29957075446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/60262862096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movawunozolavuludutigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/92328190066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b29c9bdb5f---limikupogazuzivuwedeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihi74kocpb7ptk3ne4his70ae2/31070542321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/vozabegilimifepoxakeradam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uslugi-ogrodnicze.pl/pliki/File/xafelonowowaliluvorepoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/bojuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedokolobibuxuwuxunitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea3d9a63d7---41841749466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132047da430d---22892285330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6660be672b209301235a0bbe7460776e/logaguxojozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/19716815719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spain-ex.com/images/blog/file/87223576724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/24635898645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/laxulovomowesokag.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE210 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 15fb01343f8adc321ab0e7413f9e989b90357e173295bafe69216195724b6b1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA45 16832 bytes
SHA-256: c70365311750e2b5789db5b6679e1b3b74b94dfd387d6b76eb4bf4669e23c2f9
font_02_sfnt_off000125bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1