Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94613e8ae443e728…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 696651e69de1fc92a2ce30d8e27f6737 SHA-1: b3bf6982474863cb652c5655cc32cce394b2c538 SHA-256: 94613e8ae443e7281fb46c9f8f0294441ca429a0721e40a066c7fe9b8c8cc957
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/10306198320.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03f6a09d1d---vurozagifiditan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/33500736646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607098ff0d6fb---69418164595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qqt1sau6fjn23c7kjg72qeji0/joxozufopededolulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/84313801834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3la07ghe6phfsi47rm0irrp3hu/jotatupuxivutegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd475eb9b---fulizaduwafejasojomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/69858037526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/pukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ea5ab1898---75085566533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862788d3b4c---74209827509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7228a226ccb3e63c623f5cd428741ccc/juluwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/vunebojufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94a195edaa---15059142384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e315048a29b558dd02ec8d3a9379ae/68606592461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a831f387f51---suzajapamoserufemikewenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608365b333975---923867413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/rufobazerafuriripoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/terojujejiresoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd51130e1b---30623773557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b7106116f---39916667708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waberry1969.com/clients/877040/File/witokoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fbfba267d---15046362944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1235epimm4ep3iov609hsad3u5/8922793012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+cultural+imperialism+todayPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cbca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCA 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 667cd8b3098363a53d28c59f25b03207ddec84895fbed7c2b45a4706c4b2099d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6C 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 2d40ca560d2fb97081a7146ce9451d70d6ccb7ec10b6f60f94cd28207c452f9a
font_03_sfnt_off0001190e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1190E 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 4120c9a7f1b6fde48cec5b564d4cf5df265ce2cff9374114fa78c4e5e648d4de