Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94c808651ea56e5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 07:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4ff31091f9625c4f8946c8e0431c11df SHA-1: c69874dc7b71922feb179818773cd257ff548841 SHA-256: 94c808651ea56e5d12dd98da301351874c970dbf9ba27ebb7182cb2d33ddb765
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The 'utm_term' parameter in one URL indicates a lure related to driver downloads, likely to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=qualcomm+atheros+qcwb335+driver+windows+10+hp PDF link annotation
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d066904218b---52013068407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983bcc0f2d9---56872608359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/sokesevaguminofolizezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/nufuxabixofomatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/xodosezimoxurowerij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxirukidotiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agbkdfeq7s3m6motqpu87hpq6c/97187353557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/lowuvipotapavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/xiboles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/jiwuwifewogapimaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/7659396051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/20415287796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/28093440237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/19776411033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/dulokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fee4091126b---69143698525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/77195159581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/80888326123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdff4b12b9e---vimuguzibuwikefazogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71bf26647cf5e455589cb58614d45906/6878820672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/65819296353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2d3b1307e96eb1f817962cf2afbc6f/9169744250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6307da24f81e8a9662d840502eee262/87488246598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a92d96405---murolexumeduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/51198654474.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B1 11856 bytes
SHA-256: c9f1fcc32735ca583741c23b7ee99aac6aed1401712860dd9193a744cd34a2ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC3 4864 bytes
SHA-256: a570ce3f4b7cb59593047ed405920c3bc029494c7f00f7163dd0e67eb1acf72a
font_03_sfnt_off00011eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB3 23576 bytes
SHA-256: 4a14b99e6460408320164b1b3bc3adbfcb80e550f7012a4e3fd27496f85fc216