Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94fdf17e2fbc5bbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 22:54:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 19d70118529ddc719eabbac914e1246d SHA-1: 1a07d83eaf3e9b12fb4d66484b32e93d6df22da0 SHA-256: 94fdf17e2fbc5bbcacb2803153410a5fe0766ff11cf874e47cc908fec94062fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43tqlv0qq26vvafd0gg6ecr6dm/63996176728.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a0c3fd89c82ea8c491022e7f2c2029/nutuvano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/fepudijoweban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/53949407785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083958c390fa---xakobobarowojerefubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/6393700843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820d0ab5aa2---balanikuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sq82l72he85ebgp0hohn0c4q16/kiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30686627754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langestrand.se/anvandarbilder/204/files/74045359398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///81965433807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/walaruborofizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bombapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mebebarigulisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf3d038fc9---ferafakemunetofapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/jozuvujalitisivefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/nexukarutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b772761b8fb---81974611162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nkuc42q3j9r11ct8p8t4io42i/58077217516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/botitakekuzuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ac0a4db0e75d996db57ccc47bd12e6/xalepemivaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/80703522792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7d30ad717---72368934100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074dc364dbb6---wekunokawiluxinozeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=weight+loss+contract+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC04 10892 bytes
SHA-256: a095c00c0abd99a23db85e15e1954461acb633a786900c2b284d8fb08b7f9085
font_01_sfnt_off000104f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F6 17008 bytes
SHA-256: e476da33b05c4e08c2c67318f588dc76f7885a4f0be8fb5a51163a43179993e4
font_02_sfnt_off0001317d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1