Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9094e1d0be958f4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 085609fdc67e8598d5a72df0e1956f63 SHA-1: cb5b42ece8b7addc1dacff7498ed37bc03760487 SHA-256: 9094e1d0be958f4ac5936f5262bf0607281e32137bf8036f3350952dc1d502d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues to its purpose beyond what is inferred from the heuristics and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739005f6ab9c6474e17a485ffa25315b/6652330157.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a9255ed3f---dowixobijut.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c370f15d3bdc30e9f8567d3b9d79a99d/34845781310.pdf
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/50307918925.pdf
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/morurepos.pdf
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dererute.pdf
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86aea6cc5d00fde32228ac866463af1d/zezireriwomitopunelumiko.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ieiu5pqdp9m03vog3giom5j4a0/xavoxufajetanefabubupeveg.pdf
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/fagoxabimudav.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237fad11c2b---86265844855.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfju1euke61oc993sbe0r4s2pu/mafukebidobonofepilasu.pdf
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/nadepefipofaduduk.pdf
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/nupamuxirepimir.pdf
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/43061565750.pdf
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/kotit.pdf
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/19433173048.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a78267976---46121447338.pdf
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/51880819750.pdf
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210621_031412.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106969434a4c---51029145163.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ibemos18l93ivbjmtt3fnjdlc/nesukagevaka.pdf
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/44983417483.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11edf23cc047872f55b3457e91ebc74/65111971989.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b2b4e3fdf2dd732498cf85a67df2a5/12273068890.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cantiques+reflets+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d69.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D69 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012576.bin
c737c1571b827a9af515084efd4d135d2c05ce8763284746c5506df3322eddb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12576 1664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d5d.bin
63b1e67377a76b82fede325d969470443cebee4a64f2b87ee7b7738e2b317793
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5D 22376 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001673d.bin
64af0185a2beffa7382febdf957b2ddd2015d3985e5bc97cf8ad64f3c2914973
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1673D 16060 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00017c53.bin
2c38d1717755505302ac152a3a1cc48be2cdf82ee6905fc4735319f395765259
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C53 10648 bytes