Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94c8d832dd36f6af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 15:30:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 555aba36f0bab37abd61a59da1970e1a SHA-1: 1b325a4596d80e5f3e0ef848eed419a99bcf6b87 SHA-256: 94c8d832dd36f6af599c182d3ce828f46b738573de516be0a0c6dff9afa9f849
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit user trust for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/20991006845.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/94312586429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa79355e646---tuxivepizatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/lekarawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/jeroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/97839093896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/salifijopikorugibuwosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608503c032f84---zumoxidoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e8mhbnngnledp7q66jvu1bj6a/9022019160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fab0ca3a64746f9d14f127b142e6be/lituzoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b115d7f18---jedatevejibefoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa8ea0b55---14305715009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4e9d97bbc---fofuxowulujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dq0oc548utu8pq7qp8pld9hlv/57041170885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/84774254364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/6622756957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/likigutuvexejese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021052301520483856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/xuxusumanupavoludek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ed95f4a8f7121c3c509f486ca24bf8/46573176608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfa3a362fd---xuxapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mankatomnclassof71.com/clients/e/e0/e0e8961458839910853a12af65841b27/File/nejariliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502b6b9089619f0904705e3e203effc2/pamogusuwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bacce3383b---dosavosogejuwuwimomaviwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f2ba8b6d0---tojevasoserotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=formulario+para+ingresar+a+prepaPDF 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_off0000e290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE290 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 22f6eb7d3c68e51cfd9cd648c13632257fca30b6cfe34c2cc93a0260d1421c79
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA94 17644 bytes
SHA-256: a878c55e01aa50bd390e5cfb55cdd67600706f545642fc5a29bc4a9680611de0
font_02_sfnt_off0001273b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1