Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 946499f2f4f4cd55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 22:24:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a741f0e731391e327ed2dbf6f7f4251e SHA-1: beb48f37a716a841d03a3b22a4b5d80678c3492e SHA-256: 946499f2f4f4cd55be3f17de58a95971065dff0817c0a6af4abdbd77033e1c41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcee15a0c90---39883812351.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/68955731519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/20023354362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/27914625529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e2644593e4738a7f0516ad00d744569/rotomofedenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/38822894449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/42739426206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf210e161d3---81195609967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b786f934d9980c1de800e999169c5f83/32001747879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dbe53b20a---tuxekegewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65f749c4b4---puxogatagonopinifavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9974699121---83915669145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00127277a51db39ba72f2a6ad93cb555/dusenizireviburitisaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b699fdf486bf8534a51d78072ac7d2/48078895144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e8cdb0ae8---66937810515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9584d061c12b892fc7edf65403b93a4b/33950357244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69540397883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/pevenexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98374790403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/zowosokenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8aaf7ea973---79609547817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9322d65b36316060748fd992f962e104/saniwelekikigegisizupozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/modugowutenemarakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffa4c4d8f3---29413673354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kik2ktphec9m0upt16vp8p75rg/40234760503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=serbian+accent+in+englishPDF 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_off0000ff03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001171a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171A 10604 bytes
SHA-256: fec79655cf1ec5765bd0c8634b9d760c8a9641217c2af60e9c61518eec8250b5
font_02_sfnt_off00012f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F38 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 0f61b59fe2204d8381da54a2c5c3376dff8276add7ce149ee44864dbb62d2256