Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 295322e91a2f8d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8e0ef22609bafd7200fe43691570e98a SHA-1: eb5c0bb357fcd6aeece19cb7a9fc35faa15aa855 SHA-256: 295322e91a2f8d33a10fc1a248325158a04c3f33c7172a26197ba8055af37387
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+10th+book PDF link annotation
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/12640162624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd096429eb576267d8ad103e6463bb6/25506561421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1895a0511---xubefixidokafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7ed5cac4d---50626551790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d55c4c0d4b1---13663927633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/warepamonidupopofuwolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8dc0f424a95e674329e1ccca8fb3cc/2765550274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8498fc60799fcdbfe0a39daf022cc36/82085176811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef21943f29---97767227061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/38661997032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/zitega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/90392830072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93bac7655fee05ef35f2b21747b48601/20604935824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96gb8pfugcrsece48qfkc572p3/29303590549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6d536a633---67607132790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582a1d9c233565ed4adaf742dda7e9b6/jurumimapezoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/9124415896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7baefbcc3f77b7eba1f52963867b9337/98748497691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/dinanefanowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozogewivetafinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/90682978148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/dexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guiaterrassa.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/42989432761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd5395216f69102085e7dedbbc09cd3d/91142586774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/66277269567.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_off0000e6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000febd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBD 10336 bytes
SHA-256: a656102bfcfb71082ac94ec7d9f82189f028bebf85077c742bc4e1b325013b40
font_02_sfnt_off000115f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F6 17000 bytes
SHA-256: fddfdba8cc6b820479ef60319fbdac7e0cea4f48863eb68f2292d3e5ec72f178