Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a94a7d42037f6a4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b3b893b531e8857c75c98defe9ab891b SHA-1: fa8b9e3bca1dd401765ed9d4209680b8db0112c9 SHA-256: a94a7d42037f6a4db5cf03cab59a87540e057615ebdcd289e71e3d06d2028e99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous external links are sufficient to determine its function as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pulmonary+contusion+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/83674963929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ecbf5e9dc---pofepetijeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79s22udr0hj938btm2ahkrggq3/kodowabegajakegekukokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75adbqb1pcupsre11d6tf9c6tl/59847941876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130a4211f75f8f254b49a1d618bb48dd/34325893879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b24250e7a---winiviwerebegedujoduxejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886aa18b0c6---dobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/44164172951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gs3fbe3ghvn7hv8ai7plcq076/remevojaxemupumatorinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d82a368bf8---52217675720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellsazshihtzu.com/clients/878694/File/jidakerulenazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793cf876870---13552380036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/50622096624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06c50c3d6b---wavojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/zegurimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb535558fe2fcf62258e14d523f24d3b/47215314807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275db0cc80629907c832e0588e82e4f8/50120651614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a222c2de77ccfea60fa758c40c8a796/413644469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22dc7aa757597ded8a6f8b435172f00c/18132908369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/47813531484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf16ksp471flor56u3strg2m3/2964282698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c2a757d44---noragebovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/jefopiratomutavafojebabog.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_off0000f00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10821 16432 bytes
SHA-256: bc62317443537dac23ac507f75295be79380ab7e2d943f021c6c5196badcda17
font_02_sfnt_off000132b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B0 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4fa8213b598169eb3bd40aab484ce351006c9fb08fe33a168b098afe59955227