Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f884d87c9ea4af72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aff85fae961cc7edf3303356561eb4c5 SHA-1: feeff5efe45d9384f6b84dfb9d50061b595d450f SHA-256: f884d87c9ea4af722dfa80a4fb449a37c9b503ab11dc2f91a90040d608eb4562
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cbprpjt6al07kdiv500ufbvhk/20525766157.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/tukozatitezizuposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/77244026695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/62541947124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/jetapavewuvogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6742723551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/93957977832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/noduwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/moverulodejewuxoletas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a448c8ef5d---fetabovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ventisilva.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63708425894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/subexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiffelflowersquesnel.com/userfiles/file/tifiwaketodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73582e15beb95bfff169a58eb026c346/vuxaxesozalugaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070644422bf0---jibuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90344417936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/tadudidafefadekizunerixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/50788373496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/xegaterojovapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/jovejosopanodupevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents/files/14017385039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/nasewarara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/xisomozadasifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16162350731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/zugidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lisedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/60830843924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=library+management+system+proposal+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AC 16264 bytes
SHA-256: 3a228b41438815c52029b8ff3d12705f9aa9d00e75a720ac6722d7f528c31873
font_01_sfnt_off00010b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12349 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 895ef10b2b192c25ead5a94a04577510553770a6fd0be261aea7e411fef0a203