Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 934c0bd7e2950b6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 04:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d5cb39d018dead959bac1c10c86ca6da SHA-1: 9b7f72f681c1abf28e8ace7a1f45810760af4dc1 SHA-256: 934c0bd7e2950b6fc9f87b0a9b86fcd214848853d7383f2aa00af7275e4c149a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pocjfe9prlkuqbd4dj82c91d54/73082601128.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609634eea6abd---zedukepobulurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0114eb92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/54524632569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/49457203319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da94feb1494---96853845706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95869464834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da5qh0i5niathee6j1vcono8la/karowexowisorajoxodiwabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb3b01b05e---23986407573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775e8a40667dfefa5987ccc6a9ca6d0f/lejezorexusozokebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/pufewiwofokiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ee93c0bb1f6aec818e3bc472c2d44e/37808196426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/18271858732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standrewsparishhighschoolclassof1964.com/clients/70428/File/20301968560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/28600362924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608beed773147---79223415607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/zedudekorozusixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efcbcadf326d5bb3ae10eea76467881/2853966869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/14237598243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/74336598626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/98074409213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0t5s2vbf1vflqr40np4asfggp5/tutotivusawegosobodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110e339669fe---58400557115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=avion+flight+simulator+mod+apk+revdlPDF 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_off0000f0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C0 11184 bytes
SHA-256: f22c2f204b9444f4c7e35d8b25076a546a4d705354e3b5eabeb12232109b3286
font_01_sfnt_off00010a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A91 18624 bytes
SHA-256: be4358d5a0a784d0c8f6814fe1f538c774a0044df72819631f1117f81d6a5659
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1