Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94d63b283c77d3d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 58139511533b99c429f5f7b4670fe5e0 SHA-1: fbdf6dce17a8f00eea7890ad0159c70f19c9bb07 SHA-256: 94d63b283c77d3d58012c65619483bd4bcd20a3845e43a0a681c63f8798dc1c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories and other potentially malicious PDF files. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, untrusted content, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/lewurigakedugosutoxobev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726e257c039---63460745093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c12ea2024a594da702bf199d837c5d6e/nubixewokagepevakebabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e0d20fc65a1901964ed4e9652b05f6/lozogovegopupirozegepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/721272679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/zajewozexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzaidele.com/images/upload/File/29962318267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611483b664aa6---vinobemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manu-transport.com/documents/file/xebozorofodetulatetetomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124f117d33b5---viguginozubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f980ed6748---pudirebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba59dad1f39---90581248355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/39998236895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091573f1ad7a---51758091185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/rurojoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/93969768097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43738750452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/2659682784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e967cc3b4---podapajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e2588a4d7---torosoviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c484a5de---36991310350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/negufixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b93428fe4---79933237445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b41aa7b56c---wewugojuxijinafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610755df76e2a---zawukuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=previous+meaning+in+tagalogPDF 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_off0000c9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9DD 22640 bytes
SHA-256: 9606c13309a5cea1819b6596d63415e3a6bc83df878ec69a29e02c454479bcea
font_01_sfnt_off0001041a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041A 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed142e8b98cac412ddb2478e86ceea67ece2e63da08b4ffad70b43735c5418d
font_02_sfnt_off00011c70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1