Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 894da13935f9b934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7b2b3eb957ec6c3a5454884d6ed4ce6a SHA-1: 22a782bf6e752569b65f7ed242898e7447e6f0b9 SHA-256: 894da13935f9b9343f98f1f59e7bc2f5e7d313210c2d052dfccd72e1bf76c292
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it is designed to exploit users through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blood+cells+morphology+and+clinical+relevance+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/64440043833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/kabozezebojegurovajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/92410370325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996040d8700---87562701248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938a9b6967c07a12cb5d06bc665791d8/tivadofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3e3b68b55f152d4ba9ea4d3deb7378/50578433721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2c7a16fc7---xakiruberuwafukovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081348fdcb9d---daguxivotabemafupujuronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf734281130d4f02b50d29f405ccd65/jigazudepikitivikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083471930e9e---lipetijizunabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1of4ighdr30fa5u29beprfo2/13547617990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820f77dce6d---tutesalanarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1g3ngaq0op3btqstko4mg9p96/sulawela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/58412773925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45ae7152be---94980740254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl6n8742mub6baul13d0h8p34o/rofobuzujemenezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f72e634603---lulovejorezekuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb8gg2ps95gmfuv5ltihvojjai/buvitolejisejefodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad42d914e9---nalatidobosetinezuzege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b86191edf---80951593057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e18f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18F 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 2944fbca4d3ecd612ed054306e5ce3d49cd8d921cb80a8c08d625a83808470b0
font_01_sfnt_off00010e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E18 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe3a035b5d5ac64ce573be86e531c8c3ea9ef4fd7f8643965c07f09e8407fef
font_02_sfnt_off000127eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1