Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a9d5ada7afdf7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 15:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51bdc549e4adfa2a46d2508e81ea66e1 SHA-1: 5a869a3170be15cfc6c66f15820ef48195923093 SHA-256: 94a9d5ada7afdf7bbe5cd24ab063084a9da06d95b819f414ddbf4dda076364c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0adu0g66ra71le4eknok4l3b4u/55449625411.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0876b9a968---23921725362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/43358038015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlnl5nk2js808gkk5b9nld76o9/kasolodanefofewepinusejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e3272ea6fd2e50a73a95a07e2cfd56/56656567987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1777c2e2a52cf2294dfb639f23c1de1/90934742436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0eadd13b9---45418042606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/37940096370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hmvq1dhdakt0ue5434kden6u7/35944838499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cba60.com/clients/6/6c/6c2dd71b6188bc8e8f5adc6209c6f86c/File/palubatibonusuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070111279482---555352206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab5a41de38---sizekodozuvotesesusomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/sofajupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4c573c9f6---51251716443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/25250597778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/lewofevewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1im64630pb166hno1ol8u9d0i/93689046298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4scs7tsu19pjdonk0hrvphrql/nifopilapubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/19712650027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jkpj8ticvqbdrleha1vh4nvg4/93028925543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c0ca0433b---97349383219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/sujatizamusadoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/nofunirutomimoritifoxareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbe3c00835f---marajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6bb7be681780ca45e93c8b06e4003a6/wikolovezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+number+9+symbolize+in+the+biblePDF 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_off0000f685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF685 17908 bytes
SHA-256: bb9f65f7566a7626ee26696d8d0e9cb9506feb2202eb0c9cdddda63882fb9641
font_01_sfnt_off000124b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B1 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 75748508b3f768c75130728aa4002b1454aae36f867b84093e554b497b76ddba
font_02_sfnt_off00013e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1