Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0963419b7491d866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1db84d3de8564d1c0bf08ede7d4544b9 SHA-1: 211bbdc1d152b1d079c0a8cbf03895ee0d3cf58b SHA-256: 0963419b7491d86688df13c61d0941396b20313c5a60f55235f6b5afce8c6205
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and links pointing to compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://snft.ro/media/file/70771004205.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/09/07/file/20210907_191733_186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinasimex.com/uploads/file/kivujeriwivavawifare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e5fbcff04---vibetogafikiwukejadomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/59867139942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347d1f7d0ec---73844927574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8113f69f4205d42b36dfd80dfa4910/tonaxonekokifutazuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7991219741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/94015260658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60594508150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/75443275049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/55570551070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/feparotetenabisojurozidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/loramanirufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/fivadovibekediwofiboxiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rgcsmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawiletubexulobowizega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/65857132099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doxetrilinh.com/media/ftp/file/kadapobukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schturman.ru/files/files/96058897183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/rawuforosurito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsocp3i2ql89lm6u3agfscfns8/pofuruwuwivujuzokonowenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/42789819332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9e3870a04---padul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74bc7b1b136d412fe973bb69a724cc06/todadixewupiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3aalc9fp2vat0urvis44l2345/16757043372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=working+robux+codes+2020PDF 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_off0000e7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: fa4754df5b55a22558e82643af37983f64afc3f19ecba4da4cba59d6a2d5b4ee
font_01_sfnt_off00010112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10112 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 63b941e1b599943525515f62a7ef42d41827ed4ca2a0cd652395824992a86787
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1