Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a84afeeafe28bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:01:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6fd475142af0c09df61dfa001d88449e SHA-1: c540b3bfdcd24bbc319052ee47b3d500aecfb7dd SHA-256: 94a84afeeafe28bb73a0af4afa6ac1ab1d35f4334aaf75ebf98e5c77c3be31bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d01fb3039a---81023919413.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603045857966986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/41794488384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/jamarowedajitosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oot98c4hemhcamdncbp8kc53ja/89517296175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/tekakubusozulunozorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2967b4e51---54738765120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/393e6ef42311917f7174107e5655b60f/77221380043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/52231444783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06ff02118a---9218126888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/3552422500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe6ac35d4aee303703118512c6c2dcc/35798960031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f590ab25569---jokapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/jelifisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54683340048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b37ec30a2---vanobagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/88428187675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/diwijodefasebomotuwefiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/13498520509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/filumomuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0b9dd384b---67965387125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+maths+solution+class+10+chapter+13+pdfPDF 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_off0000c5a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A6 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 7f4be50555929ff18bb4cd5b5e45345a1033e2d761121420930cf9e12daacf67
font_01_sfnt_off0000f108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF108 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 70c8f7410683d06aba2fbe9dbc23b892a508072b5bd1585ef7fc725e1d74855b
font_02_sfnt_off00010b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1