Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a94c8253ccc4c308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-07 02:15:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5e103e2629f9f929d5a593132c0304fd SHA-1: a6a94a0bbb18ca5bbe3791ab9277ed16067fab11 SHA-256: a94c8253ccc4c30816d3b252467ebf78d3902a95636704ff1300350bc179da79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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 http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dc2b89b9c---83968243953.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a2c60082c---95319726752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gsqflnh28hbmb42hvm6s1kiq5/88384977426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f44cad08c7---24589974724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56564589770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c33ddeafa2---48077913510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd0019bcc6---2182756618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8820ad07b2f9d10cbd11749bdef1734e/sipodigavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schlosshotel-murten.ch/userfiles/files/22543323242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1fc0e2ff86f3678ac614519cf00c52/11222015302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae816f0ce5---54853357643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a79b83969---tenapipagiputuwimibakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e191bfdfc4c---18864526090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/fipibasunowovalusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/nufipegajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/76105092020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9f54bbd2c---65675917203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58222cd661cbdaec3a4fee952e8c1af5/11607279225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/jorujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/40129197011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/76013720017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98156641571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hai9sv4j2p33djre5q3u49d1a7/56411195615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/bixuvofupomobuvitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=doordash+stock+ipoPDF 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_off0000f78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9D 17716 bytes
SHA-256: f6a25d5e3d1123e642a98eee63efbbeaae321615ceaee848b72452c75e49dd6a
font_02_sfnt_off00013e05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E05 10424 bytes
SHA-256: c78b3782922d952191616f59b71713ae6996bf0226d4d1927df691e9af2d2fb5

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