Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a4c1cb55a0e23f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: db780a844afc89c469dc55b36b44a279 SHA-1: 3fcb0c08b0c5b23060e76a59c984a4955b118de2 SHA-256: 94a4c1cb55a0e23f2c12fea8f2a6a912e60da59c06a2255e29c439ccf52ed1bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b105b76abd---2853344830.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3420896031af89d503fdb296997ec4/11835589550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaveterinariacabianca.it/file/46513137147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/vuzoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2765s71ki00v1k0lrku9bf6vdm/71441921537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27p62gnt17ns14i90qf27g1431/70929959634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/dewakefozuzuboritakuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/88161532714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/49484438890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac472a820a---xubinefesazuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/buwoxavefovoduvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfeecbcc8b0552cbe6d2c38a5ebafa1/61727040807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210518005411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a635a34e23e---wadojifukaxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c5cb9e877---tosivafogisivefemijurutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ea6d7a453fdca2ddbeb33746f50bf3/sivonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1bbf33ef12ebc035298516b4a7099e0/zewabuwutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4bc0433b9---buguxoximadumubaturapozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5c804ca22e457878ecf09bc849178f/10892631117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/9600350296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/52221604027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hk7348hr4c1jrjvlghtdrtrkp7/fogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4307833943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ant+simulation+gamePDF 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_off0000e79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB4 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 19734be7de71763e1e11faeb7e3575aad63011eba10aae88456cb5fa8b32f06a
font_02_sfnt_off00011761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11761 16480 bytes
SHA-256: be8388a801c3fabf731b4bef3ab3058930271359ad0e8dd4ab2398902c12b946

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