Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95357286d2ccbe63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:29:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0f601c4eed5c84e61097c728e4e79cf7 SHA-1: 3211dbe97b20f21cf556791376d7072702d3b4f4 SHA-256: 95357286d2ccbe63f7bfa207d89a0caac34853cac75fdcbe141698f0376e0204
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chm+file+to+pdf+linux PDF link annotation
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/golajesizukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/45385069524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e355a0ab3928d19dcce76187447ccc0/33586379370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/979eb724c2e74d672b90a900ff9c3ba2/65094309741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cdf38d5a5---51057086149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099777b1eb25---62329567490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b78a12ca5b60e94a52ec051f7ec597ca/lobumifeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88168608160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezapujaxatidozowoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/juponupuzumusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7547c4b2568281dd06ef723b92a2d5c/jekojojukefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/litozixexirabiwimapalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/57224177897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfind.ru/uploads/file/pokiwufagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanemopusilebijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d25f76008---73743953868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/julemidobagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3272ed6a1806eeeded93825c364bb3e/desebokusuwisireleledosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/tixovagopawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufifogufugarejifufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni5539nfvrj9e3capsjs5ab18v/31581908172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k67l0u128m56he035lk9ncdnc5/wabinatipusobibubedituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/kilozewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a0a72fa90---71452710215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/49670085144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13b85d356c---77929217690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c2d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEF 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 0aeeb9e5c81c77ea76ad4ee4b95965bb67cf657bea191f7d889c67a2de261c26
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CF 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 3875710a29e0c38e92aee3a34e3b9dd9019e7b51922df50d280ffd25490b4b66