Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94379c368b44320a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 11e1a25710eaa66dbf509c5bfe1276aa SHA-1: 78dc4baec11e46803fbcfbf13b01725aa36964c0 SHA-256: 94379c368b44320a9eb58d22d5b841ad314f6ad6b08ece35f88e580cabbfa5f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of an AcroForm button with an action trigger further supports malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • 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.
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/52931069100.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsd44e6qap1kmm0nlq7o0mjkd7/lasuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/moweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6af2cda0aa---69691277726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/50745045795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/nijadaxekadedokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd0e56498---31600161986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d34515ea6b---kafejobuzibavuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079546465427---jodezorudasaworikevifezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/nesobilegukamemaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3277ea5c6---46493742634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5297229500---88969149853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530ad17125904da367189dbc8d3fb0b6/bazuxapufego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060bfbb52584332df712fe0b6445585d/mutitewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90719a2e8aba23118d94cbea04abce4a/lafikenijobesorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/43726878986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/46950122452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trdgdo38eesf4277m6qraoudak/rujiropowujugosapefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/162a575819297f22318ee6856fc97a87/87690672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608b68a35c11f---44907193883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e0b95676b---96506853506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d550a1b36c---mefisukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821e0ba7853---18247471588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=buying+a+car+for+tax+write+offPDF 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_off0000de59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE59 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 50b962b42ffb5e6f2ffb95a043a757b541b42483326b9455116b8dc5100d9e69
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75F 16040 bytes
SHA-256: 178051011120a8bc0c3230d2a2f87c7d11569abac85ce3a569ab51d9d57d2ad1
font_02_sfnt_off000120b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1