Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 912f959da8a4da66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 030260819960d36601d2f7e40f2c0521 SHA-1: 74eaee743d65160dc7368271984120841f9fb374 SHA-256: 912f959da8a4da663d274b48e7bf2138221c2c5bf9fb2d705b964e0289f4c44c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to download further malicious payloads or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an intent to exploit user trust through deceptive document content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+pdf+counter
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/78247007751.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjm82huv4t8uu5o9j2eh77t230/nilesalujiwaruliw.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4beec63825bbb1c44d71a0dfee26b9bd/jikinozifa.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4e033dc04---96918100855.pdf
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246fc3e96b6607713becfcbe9b213c60/41463655636.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49950002f2d6475b6ea34d1344b7b9b/12744568661.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drvbd14iaad2anptfrojmel2q2/zewaw.pdf
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/96166908817.pdf
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25134868279.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca760275fbf80225443fd24783b5dbe/12612050432.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e270d149f8b204375b2ef080681c5194/18051795563.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fbfd3cd54---41323891141.pdf
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5de4bb0b63---13220574374.pdf
    • http://autoscuolavalerio.it/userfiles/files/nujudeva.pdf
    • https://ckd-otto.com/contents//files/10442792912.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/rizekizesuxelu.pdf
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/sowezojo.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/51641576492.pdf
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/73676051860ce1fe2f3672.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ced4cfff---batarojopud.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e601.bin
207f9d34ec537e901b47bdb865c5701218cc6c79a4bfe91f91468c6998d1d385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE601 17584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011441.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11441 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c58.bin
38c04597b40bf5834590d6c8276344f4f9321156ff2c87f2efda6411f2455a7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C58 10628 bytes