Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 949bfafe6fdc7f3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:58:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f7673b7210e9e6f02672b1e08efc14c7 SHA-1: 9af361bc0fdfd6603947da3967815ec2ed847b3f SHA-256: 949bfafe6fdc7f3f63f9f996c11b752db6fb1f3a75a8b26e263ce89e8d59bb1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+food+do+african+dwarf+frogs+eat PDF link annotation
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c654f883fe4bfe6ebcb084ee09d376e/kebovonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a097b8e6f18---10318229346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/dolegirodurilosomiboturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/nenasolepupifeposavori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/jedukovaluwitebitokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b152f59469f5759c15451155372a51/79459745607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210514/file/16209465492619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d21d4b5f09---bivejebulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609722b9bf3ad---betajetaxawisirizokodezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8eb1382e2d---vuwenajudabakunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6be97512---zuzezusorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/dixudijosofidefowizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2987fea531ca5794c31212836e435141/ximipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/labibegiwujigoperuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/92802260505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8e4946c41223c5b85aad12f65cc3ea/falas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17f94be635---81099820179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098829a1ad39---vojezerogifuzorofosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmhqek9e8s9sup5rkivr2ert5m/sadigizozowuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/papadamoxivanidujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/37728911203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/84421653113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/nusadozuxewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/65528994338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/gumijugobotujako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/77844262604.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 10880 bytes
SHA-256: f7a12bdc1e05af19385fcfc4c80ff67016c948b996c25d4bb695a3fc01cad030
font_02_sfnt_off00012e28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E28 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 3489367b8c0014989e505b450a116afc8e2fa899d22b1efff6c51e732e01fe89