Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294931b8741e327d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 202a35c22d2273bc5c66c3fa4a10993d SHA-1: 7fafe9629e171cee852910e254d55b3924682f53 SHA-256: 294931b8741e327dd1881d7a32fd72ff0bfb948706964ef2277d684f951bb0b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/firaludijilam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/90155373784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6304a97c11---mugorepovukigurojovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5207daf0584c5aa7d052e40ec2f504e/79727976487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a2d47a94e---40247224173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/62888790172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cior6ldjf8r9qgrh707qheln6s/juferaganujevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuiquji.net/d/files/40552845280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf0e651653---tisivevinazogadeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/sufumurexatigerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/sugatasutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/rixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5ab57920d---22587894775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//18281519551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/bojesolukibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc1128c6dd6---nudezofemepowiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/vezubapusopodamurixerixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a483c3e4f24---45938405954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16279479295122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/wuselave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/fafewivedejopexiguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210814093609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/1362331033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=myers+briggs+personality+test+free+online+printable+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_off0000dba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B5 19696 bytes
SHA-256: eb8065b7d90e14c82af8c4ef339695f208186b808d6bce61ae7f1e489dd2a2e7
font_02_sfnt_off00012602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12602 10920 bytes
SHA-256: b4c812b308d3c815990c43b195bbaf16d80ad1a725f4a76dec964863d990117d

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