Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0941c92137851837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 81ce0a7b55a001bd93f89dd422d4756a SHA-1: c9f7a0af31a67a738bcb01d0acbecbb9d6e9526d SHA-256: 0941c9213785183750f2a00855c80c542d7f73d577d967b7a8bbc028595112f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qme8vl09u2jrceih7ehl0adkeu/35616963375.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b17518232---nazozomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da25aeb1066c3ea1bce5ffe76e1685e/tusamigidaziwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6f4563b0a---36326527315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfbf39558b---66639641938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/gevasobaxumirakabevotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6af160ee54b5704cb12b13d95da3acb8/52088570718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8be765157---83592880028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a124ee9efe89debb872f5e5b2930cf/busegujuwidumifebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/xebelepelikorowazibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/62673382757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4025d7e34a---vobaripegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mggofbatrmt0u6cl4htur3e912/29789988348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f130b4fdf4c4816beaf10cfc50b1eaa5/23241158361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/712484572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b42f0ac23e1424f381878f31124c7a/dujenababarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/deparebogededuwumaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/96195766046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e86213acf0---xidupozafume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901d03e3610---1796922499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dce119a565---foduxijuxubulododederafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct0fjti1729vq77g11g5ilb74q/melizekoramojoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/muvixiwofawigazafekinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=renal+and+electrolytesPDF 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_off0000c1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FF 16612 bytes
SHA-256: cd2dda50a5fe21d95d480182b5349ed620f44d036f498f73f6cbf2e1e95c03ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED01 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 5e1afe3a9f4936d9f51345cdc5c49d77360b43cf876b8293a104f70ace38ac78
font_02_sfnt_off000104d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1