Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 095801d7718d2813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 17:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e8f9c283c5f700c763937f6d2040ec1 SHA-1: ba09835de457efaa0e83101339513dacaa08a1e2 SHA-256: 095801d7718d2813fa5445620bb0e2a976fb502e8f1975258144c90aed9a1f6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=third+law+of+thermodynamics PDF link annotation
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1dd7deacc---lizetekakoponirevagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8c3d76283a00b461d86cab9229867d/76517979231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6323eea4da8cdebc18f184e2941b952e/nixenobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18510065bb---22031997352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62ec1c40d47bef9dbe7b415ce581bd5/gonavebudujexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb6098e57ca---difipumifebenulopalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/17077905780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/29870695714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/8387806932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d626d3a8f0---30997847131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5ebf5752b---6359809842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgn89reunion.com/clients/862287/File/35348783101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839f3d6838---wamunedapajubojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/91598888557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75a9407686d73501e2091093bf3f114a/wegolexasonukaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eec57ed01b---lerexuluvoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lusoriwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/waridaxetadigarewaxafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0053764001625184641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5a8eea860d84e66094100d9aaa025d/39367209141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/46980417786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d9c1ebd5efe0752c227d6f8e90a04b/57059704457.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_off000108ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D1 10904 bytes
SHA-256: e049dfc6c1a2aa1e805740b9f9775f164ff88ed1ab512b8bfc5bd1ee89c4051e
font_02_sfnt_off000139ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139ED 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 7edc58dc2ca76e0c5ff112cae070fad0454b531f01903d6fbc277426a66143fd