Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0995df8bcb986a25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5b83f45e6380b6d1fefbc640e68c42a8 SHA-1: 4f1537d58c986f7add1aecc808242d8914cb2abf SHA-256: 0995df8bcb986a25cc0ebbcba06a60c9ff8127abb117bc12de186de409200d64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/nedudimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/55680366071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8c2a5e16---zabonasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c6e8092caab7fe906a97ee293f0eefa/tipoxozujonidoxibirifosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210826095347910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210607004232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079083c68596---62184104005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/51572630029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611eee86b0a6e---9688917444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/60912287602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4799fd8b1d53ebf6b8287248b42f200a/jitewuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/75781140038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838fe24601c---42765854471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f502439d0---45798528642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/72276457437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73f5713aa7---67752458489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9adc91019f46ee9567f4cf88f6c6cac4/83539035334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b26feb564---2160318253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a328ba6de07---99150871200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89b4d327ef789f0b4ee7f16ee08328e/18988579078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8396b09df1ae17b4e536f358e60c11/wezegixagiwuluruzesademuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartarts.bg/userfiles/file/jatuwesesijedovedejuzupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+markov+chains+nicolas+privault+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_off0000c816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC816 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 4102c75ab5d0f758df13b0e55b858f101f7c48d39de9e19d88ba16b51e6298cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE257 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 7153a0c72e6a79c67d5bc8d26c92ee4775e54597bdc133e94e586721358531b0
font_02_sfnt_off00011317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11317 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1