Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 952c384f418bff9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:27:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c8d1349fa3fcaccd9a96ca87dab7d962 SHA-1: c32f943597b3d33e64115f745c033f21b49980b1 SHA-256: 952c384f418bff9e1fd5bccff9aaf3b3b2d38cf94011fbeec0387886a0556bbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and the ML detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexaliwimajetoradukemiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/78528563041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/85890999292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d9723f0e86e93e715006e2e2a44e5d9/21341073955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/juwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/47898774115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/20787778387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/82735672773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/korovupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/d44e8499b1e38b0f82c69013f341412e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6331d59f09b2c4c83594692bd3cfaaf/pemibarajomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b52d80203---86210687325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/vevago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/9771269639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/9718817076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/vexesusagasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/60391093607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/91318718448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52963566.com/upload/file/202109102259320173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/26434085561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134677747de9---fetapasetozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/nulikufinexegopekukagugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+period+tracker+for+androidPDF 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_off0000bca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCA0 17032 bytes
SHA-256: f330dc13228b00bc55af072de7fd33a18ebc1464b89ff2d000f8c12be62bffc7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BD 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 98d23de75ee94603c28664371037ea527ba49f9dc2638b5c942144564007a6e2