Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194349b86a96e4d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 15:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c06b46bcb1d460fc319524816401fb86 SHA-1: cab948c630ad7c71a5555ea6a5a6bc05081a3fde SHA-256: 194349b86a96e4d966b26007d07f7ba1d3a311e5a26fd48ec526813c6c85e1d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination of the user, likely leading to phishing pages or further malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609431347c5fb---16115491542.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33dc09f874d0d53d85a69a5681a8b3c3/jenukikikuzodatebabegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16087436eb372d---soxugogotutamewosujuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o0lonu5rajdumfnc5mrjtqfik/87006547834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7519b3057967ad013560e9b3feeff17/82301489382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb5716e883---kepezasumopepitanubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/55914375274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa0a96dd18a05a9fd5a58c3980dae01/66877528215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/84700359549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/63708789125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608800b78f6f3---3482237834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a6ef670c8b0ec12acbb0dc4099b8dd/dovexaketijisewena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db9630fac3---belidenubumejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864ba88f970---61617094236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/12550061036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/450832137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/60211639265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f86cf455f26---wivunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b9237cd6177825fcdb9850a1630952c/18024098137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea5ba842f5---87459951793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffjsnanegttpg7hpomfiqs74l5/judasokixovododurokegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/lowidajojazeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/baluziwolawavakekokatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/31584695341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=number+magic+class+8+maths+solutionsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10528 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3A 16892 bytes
SHA-256: d3fbc10a08225bbcdc90b3fb70c3b178b7bde3731677839edfa37df3475ce2cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001490e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1490E 11100 bytes
SHA-256: d07c47993fbd04e788bf2d380de51a7be4dad138e43b4faf93d6a1f8d68fdde8
font_03_sfnt_off000162c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162C9 16224 bytes
SHA-256: da79484a7f94e028a8871d907a282bdc2df095dfef79f7b1f2af1efeeab75da7