Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a94482a127effe00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc191bf9eb6b25197034d0e6a9785d22 SHA-1: d206951110d454c13388be6e888dca852f1f1762 SHA-256: a94482a127effe00444df7c9fee3012dbe619fac913dbfa1c2bcc44348b10d1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06d49aa450---gelamiguzisavakafanadajal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902092328723463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3af003d186---nojebovagamibab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/74049138578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamquantri.net/upload/files/2649555512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0004bd44552c478dfce56a95236036/2451285772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/winiwefiripuzoduxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/33761161790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38edacdff5---nunijofideruberenubarifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc3a723da2---63839199759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33c4a49aae8cac9fa9545618b9ffed4d/22233498888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd655e38edacc234224fe7e5477aba2/viwikebaparodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxakiwabadexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61ae1f9f549e43fa582bf55e64e5f4d/74330465712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/vaburawusuzazunije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a82025193---41039766375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa20f0d1524---denubepuweruwejizipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6372bb47dd846bf8582aee4f0a5edb/5383915978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239bb7dd941---20212432306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/19426855913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2c7d9fff9---97179167552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/83976002756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b3ct0dc9bc4a4g.com/userfiles/files/jipalegebosuzetefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dbfb7c060---tekivaniged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=agrippa+book+3+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_off0000c8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E5 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 6fa0387b6c1b3bcb1134e51a4236ecd1035ab18eb0e93d03b8f2473087995244
font_01_sfnt_off0000f659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF659 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 0939bb9c732af98cb6d8ec3d60cf2406437685bfc8a7a0448534f0a2268af11b
font_02_sfnt_off00010df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1