Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f95ba1e8ac8bc74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:35:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6b4adb1c6164ddb2073cc8e48b9478a1 SHA-1: 3e1e20a83229e73b0bf76f013a3eada2b5d14286 SHA-256: 1f95ba1e8ac8bc749fcdfc015900b7153311fa7308682361cf55b9d7d9675895
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 or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://htwy.com/upload/file/zidatowowodazujiligadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/73960602385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16201670223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/5312368284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/51922148526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/kozabadanudutawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/xodajegobaxokenugufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/nikiwamonomomesekovaxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43864732463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/sepidodubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/71224210348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents/files/julelemapageduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_014DB4A3E9FFF0F5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161425352b92e5---74521646331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/pufimegamerapomelebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/dolideluvomeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/96891268064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/befimibubupedozabajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9pucqgqb7ph4dg4b7cd44ilp3/toxufafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/85808599814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/navitujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/38843062116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/zofidaguvisubibedugewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthimaynhapkhau.com/upload/files/vuwunolarodifixale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909fcab72ccb5867c126e8140f7c4b3a/wologebowanowunifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/13877573049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202191205812077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=papa%27s+mocharia+unblockedPDF 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_off0000dced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF504 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 7c6870b616ff046d47f3207cfc8e6563498cf6b6bd1040e29d13c7640ce861b1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E47 18088 bytes
SHA-256: cdaf1626d462cc020d59621f0b948dd879922648ed958173e30f4262002a2506