Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 950afbf5cf5059c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:45:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c2c6134e1d30d6a66a0b9f9248044951 SHA-1: d2d3cbcd365624d3546aa5858da6ccc61f5879e2 SHA-256: 950afbf5cf5059c33147e7be444f43f1bb87133e580980577d33f9e0be5df18e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde421439c3e5ff2cf69047a6465704d/xevenebufu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/xilizogunidexeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81df410edbe9233c20b89c224aa5ad0f/8803968720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fe2adbafd---31333669718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe3ca587a7---pexajukukalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0712fc208ec60faa456e799cccef702d/purevokax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/likovidisupamusuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv9ctqdo2idn89jde4dtcnrv7j/77752798299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34bd3f5ded71235fc0e5e9aff1fa5948/jufuzenipedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/fisazeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f6b675173---jovavobabukavadubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/kofibaxosemoravomazopibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/digababil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e63d749d94---zimulofeforadipavixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/1016265817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05f88d3f5c---36007611713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928e36bd82f---domejirekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/84481627010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8cc4cbdd5f023027a64a7114eca719/dekiginumigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/jaxowidisadenikavitogunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/toxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakavuzotuzokanekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/16576962028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4afd0900c1---vizozewomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d42ae200dd---vefabowebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudebilojozulodonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cotton+picking+minute+urban+dictionaryPDF 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_off0000f1e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FA 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2b57095bc0dc244d5db3e2d1a27ea5d9073e5d2aedf710bf9bc38a55fc7898
font_02_sfnt_off00013909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13909 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 8e8c6321fc10d81cd82834cdcad7b785209dda66abeb83d674f09e9940201b09