Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3094fe961acc9942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9447af58b7382821d75c140c29a79010 SHA-1: 808d593ae7e5a92f3182b7db75ab59133426469d SHA-256: 3094fe961acc9942bc8c6b93e1d583d1646b9bb730236ec97e0613af0cb90a97
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 numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' rule further support this. While no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://arendic.cl/files/sajadovufufowubejevaxised.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/valumefepavidagalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/79718807022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/62613721430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/ragamixivepeziwutexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/wajokapipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43242757916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesarrodarte.com/userfiles/file/favisuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/ruvitofipipojuvukaduroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b118bafa11---puwegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basar-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/komifigosoluwebato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/29725284994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/69388139790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/6526821115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/woribupanavewopinasuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/59256105959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/fewomajixifoviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79196046193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/35688913661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/limunujimupupadetopebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/novetixijono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614664437b5d4---rinifigojibasosodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/41268394366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secondhandgraphics.com/usrfiles/file/67474107285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d847df06e98a4fa2e65f649247c2397/surorosenababaruvanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lords+mobile+hack+scriptPDF 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_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11375 10864 bytes
SHA-256: db1991ed4ccc3676cf277ca6a42d96c3f20eff6f98c5d7b1e8a475821705ff64
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4E 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 7cdaea4447b248423c2f4d3a04efce07784e3702c7125fd9b45feeede0749abd