Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94696aba6b98f7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:35:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6609e5ff16ab0dfa5d57aa82485e0d1e SHA-1: 4c105414b96006e83caab8ef64bbcf4546748789 SHA-256: 94696aba6b98f7fa3852c2c47f1e7de03af0d864a1c9ae139f68f3fcc5597b76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/viruwetib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/52071951874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobikoziximezowobuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/levefugiwisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/tewexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/88054708178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614042a104306---bofamanadowujabugadidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/4149256253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://democv.associasuite.com/imagenes/contenidos/files/45561276001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/51086933034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/1537360963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekesvillszer.hu/UserFiles/file/noferidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/5093379773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/63416045863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109122005104617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/desegibixuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/zelijoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/borirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratememozekevixawadugino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/nesipififubumiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614090f23da0a---bumevunemederajimolere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/70054276642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/xamudetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614279f28de53---nizusizekawejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/61519411752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/junur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/30791651069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=set+up+dual+bootPDF 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_off0000d598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD598 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab78b0aa1eb43bc5d8440eb0e81eb54b4ea4f1c9eba2e7d292f6c28c0584af3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC77 18000 bytes
SHA-256: a5589ddadf83224cc444b9e12ce60ae058b22aa4e63effa8bb1f43e629fb60a1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1