Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 949a7fa64519946e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-05-28 04:05:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 63a51dc8ca7098e68ecbb1464186cf65 SHA-1: 6b7802d0d5708a5ef53a8f3d32275982d39a07b1 SHA-256: 949a7fa64519946ea13d53fb1680338afbc764a8676dcc931df4de8a36477df7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+retroceder+nunca+rendirse+jamas+2+latino+mega PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5fc698f595ca156dc07b8a376d83469/61881796317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210523040958748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a574c0a38---72755676320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080490a4da1b---xusivowomuziwekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99cad24ac---66697592641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90bff947b00b9ef7b82c65125da696e0/wimizefamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibp8v9nte8q0hbifm5rk4pqk44/94167513055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab888de673d---wuzuvixekizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd195f3e0884462bccd88608433d15c/wugilari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5ebe4312a212369e4639526420883f/25220081232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikspesial.com/file/mesusifopusutiwepibefexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c18df69d31befc033b3302813e86c42/dulabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6749f27f0aac23b7107be20de1c5ce/jomoseredobunawebivijujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff566be733---mopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7440a35e7---xoxefolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evqd3m3e4hmd9m01pgc9aepp53/lotuxovigovujaxawozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt4c0oj5ns2onc3d7s12mftngs/rolibewiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39B 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 8187145963fbf8e0b7977f93bb9cbfc296fb812f6e2b6f40a3c8d31ca5a797a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF482 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7abd7e458a6d004dfbf9c9b0aa393bff531bd2bb15804cc9119bd6a123fcdc
font_02_sfnt_off0001070e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070E 11952 bytes
SHA-256: f2c7c546e055bf50176969486d2be016b00c42555ec4a3c4c562efb29f1fcb41
font_03_sfnt_off00012e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8A 16172 bytes
SHA-256: 7bb20bb306747be2d0b7c98c4825884d4f884f4ee6b1f47b8304df2d605da775