Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2953b8805a0df95b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 200ff9ec05a01152e2ca18a3caca41ff SHA-1: e815d3376fbbb6a274f08bb8418380547655db76 SHA-256: 2953b8805a0df95be17910a470cc1848529d1e1a376fd831fcca6a05ac672749
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript stream suggests an attempt to execute code, likely to redirect the user or download further payloads. The numerous external links indicate a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://bacsionline.net/userfiles/file/78928674297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/xuwajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/81315666494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/vitupumuxezuzenimifenope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/37969512137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6209c7e1bca3bf690c7fa48506ecaf82/948277883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafosikefawerofefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/jojomopusobopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/dijomimumifodunizojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52826432147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagovefezetigipifitazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/95518782461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb984c87ee---lonadiwufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/didusodomofelogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://como.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/46286718342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e1ccd0e32026a0ad05635609bb11d4/vuliberedumutaletubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/13004106340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekutudomowosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c5c576cc5---53808373860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394d5a59929---50359907427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/wavogopewilasedalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soloparamideco.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mikusegumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40bsm64qaq7e6i404b1njdb051/lekeropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+space+no+root+apkPDF 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_off0000cbdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDC 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 95b9c811bba23558593a02657b0088bff54a509c5158bc3779a3d561273b6884
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F3 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff6541cbee623df2abdf0f247943bc884736f4a7ff980238abd8728d87443a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11095 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1