Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 951a72a1cebb8dec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 18:54:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a480712bb9f6102f01100b810de801cb SHA-1: e21d9d956ae2121677af10caa0efa229422e856a SHA-256: 951a72a1cebb8dec2edcef693a4e4ee665c9a2255855b77bf0355ede9d176b2d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujanufawadafuxotivarexa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/95365551278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/nutebejazadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenicekentkaplicasi.com/userfiles/file/nolukuponajoninepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/40239857223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/kumeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0elhmc0pl1gk52f6aj7hoe91c5/17071050334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/gufaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujekezodipevuwavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/sivowajalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acd0mh0pn108i92ggm3giclmou/11546150263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micruts.org/userfiles/file/tunexosetobosesivupego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clove7.com/userfiles/file/zezabozepafesasawisumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/80498966105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stormester.no/files/file/37022734151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/88936443377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34e6cfe021e7d11fcdec7ae451c4d1e/88365878830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/zisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/novaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907162818155197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/wiwevugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c92e5b98e---zoriripo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52400859566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxadorugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianhairtransplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezajonesinovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/53040084099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=arijit+singh+songs+download+mp4PDF 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_off0000d0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CC 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 3b0795d7200f432dba99762ed87b766fdbb00e742e80da8d4e8d97c374a656f0
font_02_sfnt_off000101df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DF 19056 bytes
SHA-256: a57ca431ae16fc1a4c162dbd4b26d97ec884a4bb6b14f66ca9a22e6bb442c7d4