Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a94739fe259c714…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a692c6bcc8e3ce9f3fabf66e6257fc9b SHA-1: 788b8393d065dcd35081a0d50e112f008f86c2d0 SHA-256: 8a94739fe259c71498a57d6bff04214753085acdf38619ba3bc2021484739d48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links indicates a likely attack pattern involving luring users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/buresenabekub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/30533238691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99e1723e98---53380427480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7acf1ddc8a---gumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/vijebegolugapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41494226699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/wumojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/vanaxemunotukidokiwitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5e16c681c---32970862136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ffd40939d---98780402612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ot23fbvkem7kj9oh2gj5bkl5/zasewuxokojuvetemajidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6af78ef6b3abccd72c8e21e25c9aaec/41044608180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anma.pl/anma_edytor/file/rebogatuxekewuxetisebobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/947915872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/90547150853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/In PDF document text
    • http://tecumseh1962.com/clients/85183/File/gefuwigupijaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1286ff65001ac035cced23ba98363c01/sipurelobumifameva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/67610991216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f404268369e88c3b7d8c913c1208c36e/kupiwademosebazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jazazekodadose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/seponidirerakawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i9mt0k5892qgubkfo7jhir9i6/bepodidunetifuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/dewibefuradodibotagatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///nizukikekukikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t96tfcr9hre261uk60ja617cvf/49168326580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=computer+hardware+and+software+tutorials+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_off0000e992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE992 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 50cfb8afe4fb37e0aed1b7aefa1488c8220f65e9a3cb181013e31bc6c991df00
font_01_sfnt_off000102f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B03 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 27f8465aeed0374fc077d3aa7495618d10bc16d4652eef9661110e9b15ee39a0