Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94088b452b735095…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ff34403f061d2a1516c0b8e557c52467 SHA-1: bab9b21ec3290f2289de2d57fa136f4783457c88 SHA-256: 94088b452b7350955dd512d26bcf76c53f4f3663b5f854e03d4e6c62f0e2a302
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 critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an intent to phish or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9eoe8ng2dpfokmn4elh5vabgc/74089385756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/muniram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/92888970734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.pl/files/file/serev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/20803858591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/sawifexinajukafisudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e213bac8832fb27bf32f0dcf6a36b369/gigerizofuzafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4c1d1321d---44313909493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608007cf4dd05---pikoredojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/powisupoxewikitobizanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d06efbc36c---nonazodirufisuvezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df6661340de---mawutavibijusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/95421571385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/wiminul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/59019458444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/17438315748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/rifunawufivudojuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7105b4a3fe---namijeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083285d9f7fd---87135991297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff2ac5e20d---77010556436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/jakosolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=lord+of+the+flies+questions+and+answers+chapter+3PDF 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_off0000be0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0E 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 060054d1f34eaf8e5e8098813d7a82fcf85ae5e96279e99ccab23384b6e9ce50
font_01_sfnt_off0000d801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD801 17628 bytes
SHA-256: fc36a712f4fb748212fb5ae63f096b27d7a0ad0678e57dc01405e48a776f4020
font_02_sfnt_off000104c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1