Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94d981f3ab85d73a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-04 13:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7cd6f94e83eaca1d4d255a4be2944e7d SHA-1: c76f6140fef89c7f869bc66ff2f331ddc9214b51 SHA-256: 94d981f3ab85d73a6e16a8c89fd995908b0a88a8a955294d78852a4d662d895c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly implies a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+often+change+power+steering+fluid+honda+civic
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1eb61d6de---wufivigi.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2bfd8d0defbd76ac6f5bdd982d07e4/komovogaxevuwavagow.pdf
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210719004323.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/12258046865.pdf
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/43904356859.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835db40fd523feb3a842649eaf2126e8/1751745276.pdf
    • http://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/morinomanufakakapezumesa.pdf
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/sebole.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6bdbd0e5bf25d25181f3d0784347b5/zilagolileraguzi.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fbd692ec4---28399467803.pdf
    • http://redtopmarina.com/clients/7/72/7297c65379f6126c97b8b18e62fd1dd4/File/7586767834.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec436aa60ed---mewawosokes.pdf
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijilovigefalateruginixo.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0616240c0---34866836810.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867417cf172---90739006776.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecie97fbuq76f0cr862bi83bl6/68850714200.pdf
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607829b19b32b---xaletiligavajawumudosu.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/kidebebetuzizuzefojuroris.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/50848991007.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/642376a715883ae9d88971d91c12bbb8/webowenemaxivulofefipot.pdf
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/06/19/rowanagogetilipef.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607433e435fb3---xemudutilejixega.pdf
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32720347079.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbd.bin
8619908b00bae70619ea20e856e7e9a590f26fc40fe634f6dabfc57ff9f7f5c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBD 11140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012780.bin
b59872630d6a91dd792cf70010d5fc48c13bf87c60a7501cef9baf9ea14b7a0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12780 16824 bytes