Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94bb5133c88c8c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e7570e1cae4806b5ad67f7ac32ca43e0 SHA-1: c9fba15c30270a6f3cacd61361823a5a1ece830e SHA-256: e94bb5133c88c8c41b02369cd88bf8723cbf23c7a651ab7e5a2009b87f7b347a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=things+to+do+in+gillette+wyoming PDF link annotation
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712cc70784d---wixasononolivokewemariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5287b4755---73358701321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7966c3beb1---79262763932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/sejesibufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63eef7d50d---69749736022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2570e775df08606bd662d8e8e8c7bd/61567330940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa09f71b6fc---wolobidorotovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/pojibuwawogosonakifexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf8ce7784e---begibarowitubapigolede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02adc5d2e---masovilejumebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/rafupejinirijebivoxujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0be52e490083e99ea1d9512172ebf37/vixuwusotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6baee457c---61442780994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b390157f3f9---85781963110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/fofadavinefovowizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094922a7814e---74945398262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcbb78ff22---gezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvtjqb7v5m5sdlsc5bmgb25bm2/99651537407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089485c8884e---37997937433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23205a19a7e08685a40bef290fe91660/15803376675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0d91a7284d28d4240a005cb0455ffe/dakidejagivegefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d01ec5c7a---5845220266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba196ea1e62---36229872917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pd3n9o81qr2ok76r2h0go8r1e/60314863925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1c9648e2db9dd296026bf59a51dbf50/74291862861.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_off0001466c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1466C 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 64b6254a1914334925a5f6342f28d24f93626e9bbf75e35f04e2681c488e378d
font_01_sfnt_off00015e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E3F 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 9b11c597c15c9caccbc43616ae8911b4a5b8fa227867dd10e704845ad2c4df0a
font_02_sfnt_off00018b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1