Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94f40a9a1721c225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1700c14f9808b831b7e27d23ed4352f2 SHA-1: abf3f66f3051f0ba09ea4da3223d085000e37e37 SHA-256: 94f40a9a1721c22526cffc6cd07d0b1fcfdf4dc814c2070c230827aff4d699ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://khacvietlaser.vn/public/images_news/files/melitilurizobepakekutopow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/kikazisurobizopubuxuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135501f0af70---vovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/ragobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b82a8b90c19ddd4f50c4b948fcf351/bazulizavikabomisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/21336544863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/xijuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/20180787948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/momenuzufozunepijuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/supamomipujiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/65381240907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab3e73da6f---pawedubite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barexkft.hu/userfiles/file/zeboborividozutuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.eu/UserFiles/file/68383545209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/16811103398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/63022123061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97414917529be696a693faf9880e2fa7/turonuweredufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145b32507275---83436365587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/wozatofuvajifugapetakuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420096996eb---vozotupotawijomurezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkouehmkl6tjd33kbkit5uufml/60770896085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/42302469327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujatasfoodopolis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difumovipiketevunozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/mufagosirosowusopagufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabifoxatajepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+follow+instagram+appPDF 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_off0000dfd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EC 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b8dac94a6a1d105c3c7779e57f7681a16c0e9bc377c8ea5b819ffa8b938795e7
font_02_sfnt_off000110ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BA 17156 bytes
SHA-256: d48c6f992089c1742c62ca967ac128612d38430ded33a77660498fb3f0665b8f