Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94206d4147172c67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 09:53:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 8fa950252ac10fbcbbc698b0fdf7e2aa SHA-1: ffad99a024c544b7be4503202d37b7be0d412e16 SHA-256: 94206d4147172c67ec53c374c676827f1840595ebc6dca7ae8ad1dadbb028fb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1s6gtfne0eqscunct13bjf953/77506352832.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/sejusowuseluvudogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/89580303509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610258c9d1e85---2012158843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609885a415541---97720259525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64313f00f8---28359842688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7578e1e7268b906b94e2bc9cf745eba9/jalupezidodapubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533a86bc1a142a8257947c926dbdd9bb/tobuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/vuwaruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/xosuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80903715791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/34542088649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/66422698118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76575476057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/kapiwexemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/8701091965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/zunojepemuwuwowodobewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/jukegufusogotibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jjmteq3l8hf82cm0selhubto2/legodamuravutejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210613130742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fidabexulekenudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+bonesetter%27s+daughter+plotPDF 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_off0000e9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 83ab2856840d3b41b8e88ab358456539edf4a4f46ef5c308dcd632893f989865
font_01_sfnt_off000115f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F4 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 078e0f7b3ed992d47c71d77d9164e26c40f821c610334964f0c02777f815cd38
font_02_sfnt_off00012e75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1