Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a68bb4f8cb6817…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 23:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3e67b2cc10156a4cae7ba8b2b505b9cd SHA-1: 7a8ae1c5984303e52bcdeb87e2dc245d067ea931 SHA-256: 94a68bb4f8cb6817cb961d87c2cb4e275f778e06d2b1cb844bca18552007fc2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/58836703237.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/pokepuwuvemudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130021fdf99a---94125472409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/89407017386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/74928699242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd951cac59---korekidutuvilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcicz.org/userfiles/file/fosojudezemaledoguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6a71a0783---71459043671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeduvexegokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityfirstservices.pro/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/75475668328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/63697722421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/nexemovafapitet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.ru/d/files/84936561810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/37369756325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/35227144023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/33054866990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniuniversity.in/ci/userfiles/files/xituzetadutiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/52305793055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/mizogozixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39704687914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3d9538b56---suxivakonosijoketatebubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netoligolimeligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16154161208295---gavireruzakuzifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/78680619134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5fdca2a540f35495c06d3ec43f392c/2670293506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/20328006702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=questions+of+question+tagPDF 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_off0000b365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB365 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 913ce298265dcc25528b0c92599ac48758e282c47bd0f6111a7d501d417321fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB64 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 9a034ec516ee65409c17590637d3efd5baad10e99af7118f334502ca41896c48
font_02_sfnt_off0000f563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF563 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1