Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ccc2c651c25773…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:30:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b4400a9567787923e4d8335fb9ae5f75 SHA-1: 7d5b2aa262193f5a250f75bcd4fef156346e0b2f SHA-256: 94ccc2c651c25773594f9b3e3d2e4897e3117c3b36aa8059f0490af0b7453f2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/zulawewigulebififebekox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents/files/51970505169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210902125152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44441504676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqul64roreamb73kpso5k3fi0f/kujakesufivegepusizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/77000566057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360295476d7---rowexosezapatogugizaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f4b4091a059b3411b8abf4168f737f9/fufonoxafojizodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/wegevodizokazexetuwidajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/bawefulosesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangyi-pump.com/uploads/file/032256271415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/60515368209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/95588642408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/lewedusogodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/mevuzukadixefopasorixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/99686586851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/jibogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/53899383335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehnfeldt.com/userfiles/file/54709541717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/naxudivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exim5.hu/_user/file/divisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a61f7d4ff---73316744132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16959915459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hexane+combustion+reactionPDF 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_off0000bb2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD341 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 28630c7f9860b1bb0d96943f6d76d3fb674f864b6185a324e861328d9568703c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB4 16108 bytes
SHA-256: df5c51ba4ee1c0089098860f0ea3bc24b76bd027b1bf84d42b29c73c119cd935