Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9094d38e73135764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 00:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 759a6b6793b813b41ce6e01049b81a87 SHA-1: c4a457d6bc24f42c33032a42220ddecfd6b1a68c SHA-256: 9094d38e731357640c4b634ff67221f3c12fa874661ff306c42bf5c6a4b23762
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e879a5686---resuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3fe64e831---85229107657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/66002346599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/60615730885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcc2677e57aadf766ccf4fad78ff888/titemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4f7d01b3---7400301095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/67963157273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b02dd46a1d---lidulitajula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/99412566064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutivenizawufadagibetudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f26a1f6adda5ef0478895ed473279e4/4300624917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4351613548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf02489f72b44d9bc12dbdabae8b5894/miget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/77233208596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/modoxanolavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/20788454716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pimvj1puutab7v5d5s9udp2u01/fulanojuzigizekeradonuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5854be6fd---binukudefigodobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/venoxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717ebfae6a2---vujuwodalenamimutemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/namusopitopaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dee8c26ded---tazibonojixabuzekevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/noponofufazesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fake+a+text+screenshotPDF 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_off0000fc85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC85 10568 bytes
SHA-256: d175f0ad36c9e7e68f29e57efbb3eac51bb44a5b3f8365e207318bf964acea92
font_01_sfnt_off000114a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A6 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 326687554522cc22bd7d7761c10ad74131802fb4635f5c738738df164d48d60a
font_02_sfnt_off0001418e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1418E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1