Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9094d5292365a809…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3065f5c1101447599aca875f50a334d9 SHA-1: eb8e0a6ace246e388d1cb848af761287281db7df SHA-256: 9094d5292365a809def776363f611441f012ab383e044b67ea30a5e708ea3ae0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=compressive+strength+of+mortar+in+mpa PDF link annotation
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/36788242414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcf9fde397---zubojasafudoxojabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lnlngjionsm2h8bmrt3g9ps05/13160224459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098602369b50---77468040645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/61058697828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1096921084608a562b445e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e24942904403ff3dddeea2f1bb7a9fb/lojenanebilegasinajuxaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c94742b99---xadejisoxolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429120906868975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825907ecb31---53084242744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/rezezujibunosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c161d21fbe1---jerofidakisewulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/48164583764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/mitopajojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eibich.de/layout/bilder/file/tenenidopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d8a680ac---xotogugulosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85544310d76b62feb4a06f6b258e4f61/romudibufakabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/bexajosapixazewojofovesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/rurijepilene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27141205da33db4f3dd1e7caef7aea5e/11989156656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/93069822052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2netkmc0jrg831poa316h727/lutuzezelatatogifibete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/vekazawirasobamokoluxebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45352337473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.midwestblock.comIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eea60e9d99---bepigififipudebawixigogo.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_off0000fc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC10 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 18893d7b8bfa4eb22d311f37eef76c6fe5939f197d4257212311ef7b97f246c7
font_01_sfnt_off00012899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12899 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 14d067b20d48517c916cbf9a546e1b3b935c133cafb6c7ef974c27e42c4646ec
font_02_sfnt_off00014185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14185 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1