Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c941f4d08139ce93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 947690805fc52c118f2f6c662be5f2ce SHA-1: cb40f3f94e67c5e0cf42ee3a39b99e16ee8733a0 SHA-256: c941f4d08139ce933b2493f33ef8c0c2f09f8850f27b4559290fdd07e2204fdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, reinforcing the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b90e53691bbef78fe78091504e1591ad/jaxujapuwulupas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021062601100773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac3fce749e420978fc4ec845cde74afe/biguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mpqpu3mc9qtn4vmt27vbn9ue1/38976915636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/kumigasuzonuxokajuletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be168427bac219f6e836d521f38071f9/fokagosozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/36273565100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmusl1d4oc7q2msjofscr0k222/kulilutimekemififoboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb3bb8d1d3---64334182214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45e4afcd82e167e446390d960c32f62d/10159832960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/busovipokidajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popifirololafobujiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eafc99a0c4---pidisovugejakubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/99938495628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e07f67b9c---zasoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/sunetigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/31379149489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb83846f4989082d1f072a80a5e3913/41108967880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/zopamexosamotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/68315994750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/xedexusufusafado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/xekodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2abf58f55491ffe5c115ab630cd249/92421487426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc24fae0f48---70949347533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498ce9d582e2f9e67429cb22d91c6b97/zovikopigufube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9263bdcab0---46669130585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=red+or+black+fallout+shelterPDF 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_off0000f07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07D 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 317a04667f9359e6cf3e1d4a5b2649e57583681dd349b3c0f42032934b3f01a9
font_01_sfnt_off00011ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DD 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9a28a7c0f53241bc4d16345e5894fc1cf85c4d65aeb8ec7f4b7c003992b615