Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94e310f31f736675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-03 02:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e6dab8f2eba0bd4b6691fcc18b6d9d73 SHA-1: e794d15c8c13bcf14303d9fc5685398afc7e9165 SHA-256: 94e310f31f736675a5d56bc74bfed4a6326d295012ffc51d2e1c59a0380a5ed1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+facebook+messenger+code PDF link annotation
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/sibijaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/17290982206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d43df9d53738cde2190eb95e702656e5/49473517581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuccifamilyonline.com/clients/b/b5/b5aed9f4ae8fd2b300021b46b426cae6/File/63096436113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9afdbbdef4d5853cad08a99f62b7de50/liwazepogekezepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31v9n8n29660ecibpgkj603v51/46119510824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc133ef49cc9fce23764aa19886c7d9/gosapezeragijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa29827a8889c629c3953218695bf3e5/37363516691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc9beac910---85708408001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b411e1aa083---sogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e478999bd358fa04ae0c7cd0ad3099/9389669830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/minoluxelodaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/5267164136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/5660815155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/33405003504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bead1992680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/29521119222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/mobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381d45fef894c0a2b5593fca986c4fd5/wetemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3ba109396---sogemiwofaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwasunolelujisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/mipita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/vetarazobixixesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/nadosodurodabuvogalobipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d046380f7c---14507212398.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eeb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 9dbe486ac7f8384145efe0b23389d488e74780b3cd0d8bec8062d60bfdade8cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C92 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 369089d1c9ccf4908dd509be3fff12dad9211618895a6d6d991df5fce0ddd718
font_02_sfnt_off000135fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1