Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a222a37b182a3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c57cdefbb3e4e4353d7a7c938281029c SHA-1: 7161101d1032a4eba9f1dab23a3ba357ffe6ecd0 SHA-256: 94a222a37b182a3ec71afdd6a3b2745d9dbc4e0d30c052903fda6cdfd5268d7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. These farms likely serve to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially host further malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900eb87ddf9---gakevejajafut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097db830537a---ruxefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/goboragorovabaregovume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/ravedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/rowexabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73073004873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl1c0gf77pjjtj2peqn3mlahah/6105403943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nokeporosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080da7a8f2e3---lodaxupumuledepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd6a93f5d2d3c63ca77a4e196fcdba8/lubowejevugimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7197dc9d631b0c28cd85099474b33f71/91095474701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10554923f4ca1fea6ed081e6296f58c/87443539317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeisartfoundation.org/sites/default/files/images/userfiles/file/36756115511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/xejoxefekabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/17819800684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/koroxuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611937452f206---piraxutolowujodogitogofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/karanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opgap38jilmb7u3c0nl2strth2/barejalapojonekemiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mbm1bdn28ueg26h0oku8f6tsb/89560220976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/foxegidopudulamokikaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/wokomelufakarujolope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6peiqqpbrjgnnn3dnarej5k40/16193718551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroofservices.com/clients/b/b8/b825a24af54c157c196cf52173d75bf0/File/lunapowawitozesesote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/35261048623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=peanut+good+for+weight+lossPDF 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_off0000c94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94D 16252 bytes
SHA-256: f8d57eb2b53b153d95e7d01e1da4f379129270d241b259d6a4168ed758d0acda
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30F 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 8e2f14b6fee53b11132cdbb3affec3b8c3438f8a380ae8149bebb137d22c6a1d
font_02_sfnt_off00010bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1