Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db94ecb9f13c53a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-30 10:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 67506aabf199dd7c77ecbf5dc9df9231 SHA-1: 04672a8164ba622cb9a4433146aa3f78dd13df73 SHA-256: db94ecb9f13c53a28dfa457c16109cf0ad50c845e23df8e4d3eb7e2baf128db2
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 pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e9c0a8dc---60636245912.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/19648866769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1ada76491---28689401162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d48d5cb033---98054726535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ec3d46a31---bemunuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/97650317299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/givizoruxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/180767025560fc41f5a1f05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1a8c9a447---12550509908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/25404166058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83bf800cb365d20534596dc430fb2ee/gelowenawulikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476cdc4567565a3fc3ec252f001892d0/29172708672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/90876575697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/misuzejotaxolasitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e843c36dc---wawinatikomami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ab961eb34---93857761682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozogoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76acea4b38---wapewigugenepazoxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210722_386DAEC6509453C1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/guzinerofikedemuboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/71774364997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b14786aa5---woforimizosuporanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4635a70dbbc443b42fb072c700e08dee/77425737576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=evaluation+addition+et+soustraction+des+nombres+relatifs+4emePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E0 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 86bfe7afb80e5e15018cb944e238b632f6499ca997a278e927489db38f4a2f19
font_02_sfnt_off00012696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12696 11004 bytes
SHA-256: fd4b18e12b2ee9cdd8c175e6f8960c404d242d99efe1aad82efef226e928e39c
font_03_sfnt_off0001402f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1402F 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 6b54a3f50d1a413a5c8c0ed289a9c866e37e8bd73df0b162fe7132700ce54c18