Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7094c1462f694018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c254e8d3b53dfdd73deb79a252213642 SHA-1: 7d5ebcbefaca2686b089aff5b602d7e807ec4f55 SHA-256: 7094c1462f694018ed22b173d8c4ded937baeb43a3878369ff5d11fd65400cdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations for phishing or further infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/muxararaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5aabcf29e---32299720317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/57474529934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adce75ad8d4---fewurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/rigeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/13198376546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984795c0f72---72400284723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d950e93ad31c03c77b48a2afc01b53c6/71728910605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/49979773650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/pakadamatejatomekibupudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b683d0015479dca7e82cc491d4e1c87a/tixudexedebepezokadujusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c69305e94e---54102477052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ae5fc41e8---51831824539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1a13a2800---71529817368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50qsirbqk6e21904c0fv360ljo/pedusalusivajixibogavopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/71793498725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac82ad29b87c8690f37400d59dd69a0/14252527842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/parowinugebivirikepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700a3be9fdb---xorobisekukela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/73782965250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902546e5b62---pojabewofefagujedosive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebbq6bft1o1ttjcfm7tln7c4t1/ratezezodisilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6991c25453273029a58d543c58224625/57583541613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607471af977ec---51622868538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=absolute+function+graphPDF 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_off0000c88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88B 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 1a355936f5345a1a9ff1efc17ebd5a9923d136f83d75515c66dfae71007eed5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CE 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 001dff7c39bbc6ca834b1b0dc1e13df26777b5116817f2538fb2a50ae3a78b32
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1