Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94dd90732553b03b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4dc9fcef6c8c32520f91a9a14e47f249 SHA-1: 4c2578dc249c4fbdaf2df689204dc5489a7d4f03 SHA-256: 94dd90732553b03b0e2ad72e7d70dd525785581a29b57056895ea55ba600c96b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on disposable domains, likely to facilitate further malicious activity or phishing. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised upload directories further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21574581519.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tomoxexokelasoninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/lawanugipexomipasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtquery.reitoken.org/Coaching123/images/files/54656192361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klwas.org/userfiles/images/file/wiwemuvuvozidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614176d7c6fba---64288186413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeinstlucia.com/userfiles/files/86416681008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/39636692488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0ac0a2825e18ef425787a37a2c46d1/33951349174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/vatogopezojupowitamunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivicom.vn/upload/files/zobofukuxunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202109/file/tibokibemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/18851411495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/narukimuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/ludapipajazufalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/nixevudevosibudanuzelemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roberthalasz.eu/uploads/file/kerelawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16131671702c32---95500148221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/firubagevavubinugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/pekejakugoxafizevuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7luuokp6i315jmoec4ifebdhh/53897561578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+download+no+play+storePDF 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_off0000c973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC973 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7a222ebd36ced8561804e90d7855cb2f6753df4db5032f6224107714274479
font_01_sfnt_off0000e214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE214 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA26 16412 bytes
SHA-256: 95e5f2d0f89209ff19b679ebc75ce57b636e524b825c73b56ead3ac614636284