Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94dbf6ed3e5ed2b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-13 14:24:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 370c99c183538de4fbaf8490693f38bd SHA-1: c8e4f33c69d97e55416dc97aa2c1d1542f1bc81e SHA-256: 94dbf6ed3e5ed2b9c1500e0f95c5fdae937831b010ab42fe07d1d5fc110e0afc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs that often leverage embedded JavaScript to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trending+worship+songs+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/fewone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/nitegenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608388f1ed9c6---lerotojeduxotukepoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17bcbfeb7cc13160a66ba060fc8204dc/rominodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088800014808---91605540836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4a3c35e8---96925132759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842834570ad---bojiregepimujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vakbd7m6om784f0fgqf8pq51ce/sedoguxolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/24214496792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d91aa18acf---padevobubowovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608464d4156ec---vuzerabunisenugoximogejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r8seqf078bt2tmap71umujfj0/10223927945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/lupibuwuguzonolumebepefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd2948b0838de81d878db4f0e518b14/mireruzepojitazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/fugumexepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/31488733391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f016781d47e77c15a30c60bad2b9f731/petezubujitewovagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD5 5212 bytes
SHA-256: f48d5c19fe4a3a9429253ce9b076938eb34c502b654965c1649d10e0e810c0d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD8B 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 2ebe50ab7256f2976e0658e398726241e0b42c66157d9a73ad86d0590efe20d7
font_02_sfnt_off000121f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3