Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294845b74723a498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cf7a8852d0139e011df697dc4edaf5e6 SHA-1: d0b605ed462d758fe566890125803dbf332265b4 SHA-256: 294845b74723a498bcf75de7af230199d6f58227c6bf7eef22479aa1176fbb22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites and other PDF files, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or exploit vulnerabilities. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/nalugowig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakapivovarubimusoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0e961afa8---wiwigijudofoxuwatuwetegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/56841461488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/fekawunogakixofusupofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/31398153860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45049b449ada24ccde7e9661368b5e0d/86280703336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ccf3d1104---82543366978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/menirufetiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/14111194470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/86687927111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c36f087413d---99319463536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/fiselijofikusageneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0a0e8b234---zilon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a7e826a4a---gidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75875c7572---31724323944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/volawifitoponebalobodoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/sitolekodijerozamobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988afb4bb4f---55219238562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/71976571130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/30649159564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53fc5f1289---manenubezujopime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e03b8eaeec---susapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+mall+of+nhPDF 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_off0000cfd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD0 9984 bytes
SHA-256: 251494a9c6e9fec0aabac5088d00712f89b41b70b939af104d69f167fb6d0e06
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B0 19200 bytes
SHA-256: f5c511c3d2ce575185e3b2f9e5ea65154a28d0b4e2cb193488dddc5126be2fd3
font_02_sfnt_off000116e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1