Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 095165205dd1e506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:45:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8b8bc9a4424bff998aaeb630f4c41695 SHA-1: a723de573949b83a4b94305f866f942383e26465 SHA-256: 095165205dd1e506acaadbf6d8159a21f3dcdd5b8c11960de5cb559e160f466d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a tactic to distribute malware or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbbae86733---11042204694.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/528080046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_A864E255F7836896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d66581f696---tanolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b564679e38b---virabarobudekotujoretil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2970dc1b93f18d898667c42ef2e1e252/sobawifunavijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdf24d150ad6c5a99bc425388604c34/76394530789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc9561fb74f5e197861ef4ceb1e23ae/13083962827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607092f473e36---bipezoxubikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d498afa43---nenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1e6b57f73---tadovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b71e8136f---xiselevovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/31080346490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804cdaf1e3f---sijola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2132ac480---66528033197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/wukosogonazeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61659592434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fe99eda6b---97702756259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physiotherapy-warwickshire.com/user_file/file/5932984240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084af4c731ef---3572420436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3283d63027f9204599072b76f80087/61696457971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfeng10v5crmpj5b2iavrnko3b/88306733895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+achilles+in+the+iliadPDF 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_off0000f95d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001116f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116F 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad62789c035550c5e46cdada6fda073e72e6298b69202fe17863758672db4e2
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7B 16060 bytes
SHA-256: c6549f22251a7c672008a5db7f07691c42d3183154b8b4cd03972a27c3442328
font_03_sfnt_off00015492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15492 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 2877024c0e98b4bff0f18b725bf8bbbc933dabb4ba9b0f1ca0afcf294d3ec0d0