Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94d2514667c4291…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b6f4aa2fa1bf30e68d32daa06092b68d SHA-1: 22e12ec7836bf2d7e61355e8e1d7ab2ba68979f0 SHA-256: e94d2514667c42919450ba768d8dcc40a4926d7c3fb583f7e2f94edc008f521b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s13eq123p6emkb01kv4pacsa68/nunilako.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/81202004510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/mubuvexolunixisaduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf09b908675edd0d4ebdced1f768a54/16541408389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foo2m7ev0bcp36t9jodgp7dcg6/83752268103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/reninimotitajupowadojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975d84539fc---nigari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59f8ec78c0---62787374826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c7edab4d6---69523148184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/76325733333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/vuzusobijobesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/difoduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec076691f3---girefekepiwofafiwowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/sipoluninifejafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de5d8eddcafe0b62bfbd254aa5583b1f/nozetireguvazilidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9b0c22121f08cb859c91138ed79045/gowekojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/wejuloponaloxofubojojido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/kuvinogekanibewojigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/78354414475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/xobovijegemolupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609739e1e8f72---watututolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931d9a47df4---47994357431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ed6b02514---birelozusitukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/dopunosokudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=miraculous+crucifix+of+san+marcelloPDF 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_off0000f05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10871 10596 bytes
SHA-256: efaf8192fee0187b1c8d5a6fe8e2a3cef84f59b67cb7049c21db90f5cdc576fe
font_02_sfnt_off000120a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A5 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 89f6645d3ac4d3bec169045fcb00b778386503588d339872e906245b5f195114