Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b94056f7acf87567…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1f1aaec86882f15858efa64f4afe647e SHA-1: 26b5c94a2b46d975807ff37ab918ab29413b9119 SHA-256: b94056f7acf87567b6b65bf04e8e4fdd61105e705f1569b16b7305e7c7d9e07d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, specifically leveraging the 'formcraft' plugin for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary goal seems to be directing users to these compromised sites, likely for SEO spam or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8645b8cbf---jetofetevifiwamejakig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41610216992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f199a5251f---bepezusureleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c494d9352dd---92475962250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e9e12c9ed---14999519407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506081200473231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dae85ba68---30869266940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/tebarilurewadeluzojifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/nekodutetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qn44p9cgml1tnub9r9qntarq8/47550423124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/87105768556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7ed2a54e5---lotoneteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/litaxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611617faee72c---25102886353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/32723690609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/47298065918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/fomumanadadetubipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/nutife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/kojanobezometawetenejaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/varuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/34368910971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwezewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3493219725ce892ef96694a3684d0f2d/xikefadefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/41408958072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=loving+you+forever+is+all+i+needPDF 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_off00010a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 18172 bytes
SHA-256: e6a341c0bf86be55f88e36d155ec39b2b0d3301c8e487865484dc40ec3f33ab6
font_01_sfnt_off000139ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15205 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 4b670f4d83a4ebab7ebeac603130762a6c86f843b96cc50193b2b09448c465c9