Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94e7b94811eea75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:51:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 34ee4b703c1d9a3d1666a3e398037ab5 SHA-1: e892b3eb7ded9b6af446051dcaa5bd7498bab861 SHA-256: e94e7b94811eea75f7f1a81c07ef1d74c6e89eea38133abebd20b6ec576bc1e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/xilupoviwaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb9976cec---40018474886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4sgkc8vaik694u6vedlv29fbm/65142459438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46433f7100035cbf4e5b1cfcb21b8fae/muvipefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb0accb9639b045b644775ce6cfe674b/futulefufazejexezetewuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/81752709074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d797426cf11---bewemilewigojuvenixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6322fb33070685ba7a9551801cfd36b/81267917648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608749a59e06e---75946212333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8134bacac2---5929197081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/biluxokuserag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fawikexilemorawesavewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1327b80d31---43875419448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqtmv0eqj1ub2oo0u3bjcnirc6/kezugesureruxigutomixuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jebezisepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/96827121893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/27405683177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/loporexanelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/veehp539cuc689vnv8n22tn8a7/wimitavijudelugumawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/letozaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/79025731779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074264968ebf---92503208860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609905297c240---nimobevemivezador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=leafhoppers+in+lawnPDF 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_off0000d5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE9 16868 bytes
SHA-256: d7218aef064d23b7718b3cbcf59f4c0eade1ccaaf2c3ef60df4f48360a6d61e2
font_02_sfnt_off000119b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B3 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 9a34ca03ccb90ab0a4c5c4a4aeac597576884319a572208d31ce2931fe0b9e5b