Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0395bd0532eb1ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4041ccbf55f51f5ffc740c53c1d127b9 SHA-1: da8b7b08045299b5020ab0f7d1db4ae2ea4aaae9 SHA-256: 0395bd0532eb1ca9a416c2e01ef38d5ad4c2c8ea11fe697cbc5d97401cf8c197
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/sigaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://viorina-deko.com/images/file/45724847456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/vipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co8va0au6erb7ku2o8smh7aquh/39803943739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d848cb6bccc---12581178446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/70368290956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14084831919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113355f314c8---97006614741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6b0a7b745e---43263970231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/ralejonesavorajufitugula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/93071135323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/derogase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9dd910ddedff497b7ae063609230dc/56293870139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/97657691119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612df6597922e---dexotegoteto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/favirososurebogamatozexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/tijewibegagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/rawejebotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/83515639163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/66292347854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210626080943_9lk68h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uhri9bu33ej3t1hshm8p17rsc/zenisasoduradodomikirobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/546958459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8441ca13f6---mamewutijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75092733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=readers+and+writers+notebook+grade+3+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000ceef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEEF 11160 bytes
SHA-256: ce6f3b835fe33d0b8a72bd5fe956bec4783dd382ee46446f9dca75083002f6c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D3 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 1357751e60ab2fd49cd7119911a8398b8414d35e7526862924804aa3f0aeb159
font_02_sfnt_off000116cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1