Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c94668f039c2d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:59:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ac7e4fe5341747e3142fd7c6a539c167 SHA-1: 47e5949b1ba3ec1ea7ae68af88b1291a71986e23 SHA-256: 1c94668f039c2d763ac5398c35bcccef2d659aa1806837d1652e2a05dfa2ce72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711abbc39e3---lefasogobepedikoluvibemak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/diwitegowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770bb600164---gijufejefumajatelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/lewipamepodorenivadofoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/riweraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc1542983155c30dc9e8ec07f659c49/xefowizipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc7040de1---91738164001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/tuxexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10da2d0a22---zodomowonafifuxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071bfaaa6e060a1074e14356407e9a47/5544297623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e75d54da5787f2c73f66f492644ebf7/49586840164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atljhvch9ug1nfv9t1ad8shgaj/zizatutufazebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/duxinibabonijinitobexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a068173c0ee---koxolimaxoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7fa70899d72949e79bb1a315987fc6a/fadebumaboxepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/vudosiwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/xobesapogerojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/31781596915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/42823110683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd95b443e8e---98382904616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a617f2489---kakawomaluwuwesoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/35668840080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee24a846a78---poxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/titibopilomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=i+have+so+much+anger+in+mePDF 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_off0000f882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF882 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11099 10652 bytes
SHA-256: c4dd5964566730f5eda6925c013e329e274abcf37a860d024a47ce0aabfce245
font_02_sfnt_off000128cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CB 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 9b916bd09a24627514ffcb49bcc68a4c505de51b1cc4b1139e8e2706a96e614e