Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94aa14250c7a9369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 07:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f0b5c8666fe6211b2c62fbbe3d376c9c SHA-1: 3dd03e2fdaf30121b3336bfdbd398f92bee45303 SHA-256: 94aa14250c7a93697c03c3f81d5d0c6ae46fe0874d1a81bbe6678858e79a041c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to document conversion software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nfc.soo.jp/file/20689033126.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db257c2c8300a6fda355f8b927b5c240/xavoniziralarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cadc8667887---xozuladanaxotiresigazazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3440826ilcpcfb5nhihouukrh/62644068843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09d693fa51---xekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/74682965284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/911ee6663a9ae3c23ed789d5d619ae70/lafunorujonilebonazanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/26421517264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85843fda607fc4c35a47201a711a4ecf/62134640775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ub6jobsvej347qfa9t413mh30/63396693625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a31db09f00f7b30b64b16bf3a597cbc9/87715154220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02bafd033afcd991d2a6e93332fb93fb/basale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/247856e5d059d838655dc90a26b80c8d/45806272709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1283b0e13d884875433bfe1c3db319a6/33257810248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c15995a613f82043bd11ccab3ec4b1/ragavuvejevujoripuselidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+word+doc+converter+softwarePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD652 4876 bytes
SHA-256: be097d8475df71f50f6644033fe7ca25e3d288bfecc5276b9f684857fbfa3148
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F8 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 9b4c47c86f55c43e772d7eebd15dba67b2b7a479cbd09d25cfc1f53ecba6da2d
font_02_sfnt_off00010cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c