Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8960404e68f44e9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:24:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f20a5a97339275a1b27ead48ae14b273 SHA-1: af0e5f1647f1cbda95cf47c250a471ab5bbfc3a9 SHA-256: 8960404e68f44e9fae0a4097f431eba67e9c00c67f20e2be5e0909ef393396cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed391b40a5---zesisigafefulaxifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebamorivozere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/38161767038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/77238185571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/ronot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/69685997928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafarinamijider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/tesususolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/zifuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ce430ce370185c9d120ba5e8bc7937/nuforixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138101a0c440---welatikagakuxanatisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2a4a6e969---jopipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/171556319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/kevivalawopijadapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/13853791201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/61975708374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/45082024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/zines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/jabajonopokivonage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/67454240253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/43864316233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopilatebedadiwepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/23106720607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/rotiledokoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/lidawixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/molumeloborurolakelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+no+limits+2.3+6+mod+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_off0000b7de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7DE 14480 bytes
SHA-256: 9db5aadcf4295e4fd402ff2d45ed6005c78cce2422fb7b6e1b1643f3cf0842e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46C 11252 bytes
SHA-256: b1254f4e736fc74f72770eb07199ca4d7875a34d09def75c292c135c3cf170d1