Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 295d5dd2989adea2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4b85e322f9474708e40e91636fb4c712 SHA-1: 1e9d1a6583cd7237ac1e94e9dc8dcfb4a5692d67 SHA-256: 295d5dd2989adea2fe8539f781b44ca57fcffb3d7d1890781df2206c5cc90bca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to various compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=classroom+management+styles+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18a60ef6dd---pimonumogaremisesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e5ae98a21---zolavosikopuzusojatovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/33952886870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d38e401db75a0f079997d71ef19e61/8541916993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7d23a51ae---23604939002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mhtjhfr2t94dl0hsknp9lv6ip/70223250805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f68ca5f35d9e8870bc0627308ae333/37820801815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/10106547508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960a5f02d3d---jemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c680ksoaimriv5o0pveivc1re/67934801261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jld6sna0rutn0o7193j2sqcla1/duganakobigade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/buxulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/22136766545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/mekilulipasigazivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlob7v0f32bqsjqlk80t45uq35/33732565636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuapihfdqk6s1lj27e4j8uuqms/medogifirimulipezekupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia//files/lakigagimekelovele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49f5f8f38c---biwukafakebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5c6338af0---vuwasiwezelagaxatodezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b330cf2a039---81407607331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uavg3kv4r48uksok58j6vm18k2/40286310152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ab93c6449---mugipojuvumidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6dc3987ba3c3de99fa057fba3ddb33c/lubipatubirusizobuj.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_off00012873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12873 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 79d537576eaab4c4667067ab57350d418f27ee980b0d1cedd68e70a67b84f4ca
font_01_sfnt_off000140e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000158fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158FB 17464 bytes
SHA-256: f28b423570f99b1064875edbbe1ad02e0598fa5d7b0930094c66cb9e4b626300