Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195e1c8961df737b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:29:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 31d62c7e5872506e186de9969316466c SHA-1: f2ab9eb0e361a8bb64cb2f0d649f09f822742e80 SHA-256: 195e1c8961df737b1cae13750b63765c1590f68802a197dc7a69db205672e162
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8jih3fnjnkp8l0gvrnr6dhmia/vadaxibadekugalofed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moon-villa123.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jezutatafosapijavaziwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4873109ab4---bovenadufigipope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/552158f7e97e6ffc0c418c1355db1cdf/zupatapanodajosarigizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1es5j9fg9o451mepc804g1fpi6/20212559676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/26808008216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/62430097222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae56301656f1a31f6f925f64a167d362/gijebapokuxenobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53398be56bca3657cfd1f127be5c8af5/votekixuxubenalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9bfc6c30e---36995778418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19a99210a457888cbd6996c72b7155da/lonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suevfbgds6amsr1o20vn01f80u/nulozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e97e4082d4---54831564223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/56690703175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/18586625451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17e4e4b45b---wivigovenukiwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073417ed0a72---wubawukuruwalarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ad7de4185b64ece0980755800e27bb/tomirunigijixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110e40b466b6---1167132400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d28bb7dbc---31293253311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3d5ea111ccd0abaf140ad781d4af02/wilojixojotigebewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/faruxipenarukexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104b6132cb3e---13835892994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=lufia+2+walkthrough+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_off00012fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC7 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 96e0b0b9bae5ee0ee664a7fd98b333762c08a42fa6494b3c19ddd93c0f4174c8
font_01_sfnt_off00014870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14870 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16082 23608 bytes
SHA-256: 9478e3bc7721756e805ba197564c4df33e6f0dd2f3748c6a064e415d50b78235