Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94331b7dca92aeb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dd8ed988306edce99cd62e0b8a74bf0a SHA-1: 28f74d84133a9c1f4a3b5f7444f1a44be4e9e398 SHA-256: 94331b7dca92aeb593897e390124dd1b4d7ce74c746339af78f495f19577d850
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs that point to a variety of websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/48499242394.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/74924033172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077901b9d0b3---57316076348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f60e36a63---lafubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/giwewenefokapuvelolikusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/woririmejuwobojojubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pojr632hsv6c7apalebf8r4gcbbb4n1a/jubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/74825342869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hmbmvihln767eqp1oc10obloi/semipilomabarekipuzegezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dc2a1fd97---96003150740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c998a4b7db---80461250795.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608108774c521---33151453906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab9fc10b48---28619202695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/77321352119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdi699m01etdsvpatt3firlq5v/lopoxojovaxoriravoxuwujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b2e89ffa---riwopomikutodedifidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/17882650385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcbacb877e---zopimogopebozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838e27406e1---35315795870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a7f30f9f---goziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b96aa446e---83320879426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf4cf81ef50e4ff4a18c49685e44f60/66406001480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/kemiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hurt+meaning+tamilPDF 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_off0000e8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D3 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 945173b063db6dcd2946db2d4aa28aaab56f183c0892f44045db87a06bb3312c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBE 18648 bytes
SHA-256: a1721d48bacf6656ffb6206ace339686bef7d300bd77c90224df1d12fb5c5c87
font_02_sfnt_off00013018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13018 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1