Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 952376af4c78f929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8f15a3e6d837e26f147045cb4579cb22 SHA-1: 24d6d95e500cc4f815ea378046a5521ba5453a7b SHA-256: 952376af4c78f92980b0fdc5f828c234501c12b81be60faf8d13065968e41ab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution or phishing campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/peguzenirofurirejon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zahradysnapady.cz/soubory/files/4295512189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/kisedowawigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/52160470735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98db186d6586b04134bdb611eb8abc48/metibuzibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388f93d64771b90e5558719a48d7f6de/41069653928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/86328509809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r9o181hcks9cjino8ds5t2eb1/37085328477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3482481e85c813cc400f568375d1da0/97218496715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f7812c496993d5da2f7c40a699f1b78/sesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/59884292852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd7b24bc72---rafanifunapeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f23cfda197---tupadamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdjrh98n5ouf8r0h33debal301/josavomagive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/lanezodabowonizifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/30311301167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvservice.it/file/37687938086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac670025d48---73501035730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac54e31e5e6b9ec66e7719f6148ee46/pazarodifutazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df5acd07a4---27719877969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f4fa1bd5664a46692cb81b2dde028b/modajekolekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b770177d4---zivixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/93191439504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cda231082---jutelosivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=property+in+receivershipPDF 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_off0000f1bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D3 10444 bytes
SHA-256: dbd397d7468114913ef84726ce15f8dcb34f273b2e193ebb81db5ece5b0c2008
font_02_sfnt_off0001217a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217A 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 438e7c87a358595960e8c77b30ea0e680a6cfa54de98206ef271d0936adf1d2d