Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94fc9fd48ef56f8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5c52769def8877f6786c9189e37cafb8 SHA-1: 9a5c9939d2d2280ab3d5fd8304d4669295695783 SHA-256: 94fc9fd48ef56f8c335744f714f821fdbe8b92ea8708a798a39617634d5cc79c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for malware delivery or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed970110515900ddac423a6ec5a27f0c/dololadugido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/sakitusowamiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/94084915396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bcaa5d37a---futawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760f1e0646d---74247783055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16209506047817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff39cc6e96---xowixasepitozukikatadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/51325865109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7739a1fe4eded76f71df2407800259/34364116709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6435834c9f24a5461ced9c84334ccf7/bijitufulasudutasujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fff03dc678---85930356069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ea9ddf94e---jasonurezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me85n1c74ae2d275b4srguqq2t/saginubemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c55b9a35da---ferudujejejirakipomifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/75834014451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=google+chrome+deb+32+bitPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F9 67940 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea11303009398d1bd343356d3d50bd3b076223adfab01b02d644479c93131c7
font_01_sfnt_off0001a045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A045 5432 bytes
SHA-256: b183cf767727051e387cade474974c92408c5e66e34fbb3bbe30a6856f0431c4
font_02_sfnt_off0001b29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B29C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 0b91661c736f82d56bf0699248bba5f83cc50ff5ef0c514105b27de877cd87a3
font_03_sfnt_off0001d6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D6FC 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd