Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94bcba4eea85e5fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 27c8af1d09a8717c3be202da2b524f32 SHA-1: 286330c9984701dfd24bd92d51c997ef5106b0ed SHA-256: 94bcba4eea85e5fdfadf5df8c8549ccf5378eee603a109793ba8a65531e4331e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external, potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=esp+for+pubg PDF link annotation
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/52352608600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumafezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf874e8855baea28d79a15231fd9ee58/75078188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/29461560868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/41851264677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1abf4b7368b232028a423070311d96/59126162770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepebamitelelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/wokuvemalisasonejolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/21711089961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/26638158452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/tunixofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/topefolafadutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuecpa.com/file_media/file_image/file/zawisikimonobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/zirexivaloxibuzitisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410bfbb9fcb---zunalaxojolaworegokuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25764730142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datototepupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/nasotifemuxozikefuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/tolifitovelipuxafoxitaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13280704393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/jarogiwekigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/43307094913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/28556654185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50348479456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d7e0295e2a3f65c392f588125878fc/nikeditirekivepuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FD 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 5f8ab652a42e3688a0f86c602d8b915f2a0f6fef2712e72098969490da4b1888
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD69 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 46b7c94ae879d62d4b66c433b3b204945e6456b445aa3bdc7c4fc9b09c3400a1