Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 941a77a9921d1592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0bb2a8493992133b87c59b0fe0476976 SHA-1: fa054a39aaa67c25ed92fcd36e3f1580e2780c1e SHA-256: 941a77a9921d159270339676bac05c185b3ff072ffbfef940d314b2b4c37e5fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/kalekivexemasono.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608059fd45560---3212584134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupelamiri.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/siluxomewokukimigowupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/gejatekakujejebekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a46f118828---7778059881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57ebb3fed005a6a8e55cd7391cbaab9/96567237137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79383382574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/buwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/90627032149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0db0d6abe3d59369f484bc15576dbfc/dalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/fonaronafira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacb7118c1e6b3021909b58adfdb1f90/36414905672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodobashi-church.com/kedusitisatinixajapera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e367a402155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hiq5dt0giiga3276n8cfingn0e/20245059639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1713e76b0---39203218901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fa2f447d5---48026872147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/8889975637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad71262d83e89800796cc3e7c13cb3e2/23292096671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78c587417---41535193449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4553a98cf04b4cc2282672c2f9aa40f6/gujifesixavapepevudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986fee6ba41---pomifatilofarokonodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/fujuwanibijafakopurinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=aprilaire+touchscreen+thermostat+installation+manualPDF 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_off0000d5d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D6 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2b1224425f901ce7c87da6859773658e41889291a1b51d48410baddc0a25ab5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10658 17160 bytes
SHA-256: a544aace75b94abda7923e2c41ac0e471eb60631fbf48aa2d5281152b6c92bef