Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 949616b938249fb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 083f3b942cb2e59f8abc28d2f4f08f48 SHA-1: 5155e618e6a914017f01d1bf678ca4f4256250d2 SHA-256: 949616b938249fb40c146e39de2634307f4e336296dd05805a51ac24e3113c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109161729444860.pdf
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///28194764553.pdf
    • http://cdwy028.com/uploadfile/file/20210911062446.pdf
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/miwixarowojimodetuxoxab.pdf
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/budawesugeba.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9amt1okdqh7i4od1nvgqg6uei/52488797666.pdf
    • http://www.sname.org.tw/sname/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62325260688.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ea35e279f---83731425648.pdf
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/zigujimubotunosu.pdf
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/bekiwawo.pdf
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/92200974832.pdf
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/kerekupokojokoxutexefu.pdf
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/nivususidejunazutu.pdf
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95107938798.pdf
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/rifovemefi.pdf
    • http://kitpaisal.com/mypicture/file/dotinufenagapulof.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1a7a13735---xaxukanawapuxuzajawoweno.pdf
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/78438657721.pdf
    • https://hotelreviewreserve.com/basefile/hotelreviewreservecom/files/80363567390.pdf
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/jorewifuxuf.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315b2fa40f1---63045571451.pdf
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/30776940506.pdf
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexeke.pdf
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/99917551091.pdf
    • https://edex.co/userfiles/files/kapevofizizabuxe.pdf
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/68882080641.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=life+history+of+william+shakespeare+and+his+achievements
    • 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_off000138bf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138BF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000150d1.bin
7ebd5b4a830ece5747f5f3257ae0761e4726a71e682eeae893c2116a49ad06d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150D1 18424 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017f78.bin
0ff6ef557a1b370114590e645d50f7e3d934f64b83b841416264fabcf0cea454
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F78 11200 bytes