Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 953d656c6a600767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 02:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 69d965b9310f4c63e3bd89a33c56d16d SHA-1: 2cc6e4c00deac4d69fb2f3169a9c76c7880a4079 SHA-256: 953d656c6a60076785d02eeab4fafa61c21d908b30918fe51f64998cb0af18c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or potentially compromised sites, suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/3424835507.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkem96s8ck06eiunn96ga5t5f4/73315353033.pdf
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/xanugumulotidu.pdf
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/xusokatefipano.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3a1d2ccaa---xatupewegowozopugokip.pdf
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/17301229103.pdf
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/70557094583.pdf
    • https://cdmsig2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98172696770.pdf
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/tekazoboraluvo.pdf
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/wevidigofa.pdf
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609445d0d3e88---wofadimijexapu.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43070a7cd9fe1acb30478ca2a3ad4440/57532625291.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079720640e0d---dofuxe.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077650cdabd6---nojulevema.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdfd604def---kopalisenawewifinavumuti.pdf
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19753028461.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073edeb5a406---62033111886.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b88a2f996---govepeguvogudisotov.pdf
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/44506507923.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efe6eab812---luzijaposifavilobizudo.pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc63157834---64828456201.pdf
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef6a8f54fb7d709457838af7c6d3958/tawivitugepud.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=filtrete+thermostat+reset+button
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3cf.bin
689cfce170e62af3974cbd79438fe9c1b2661477be301c940be7f9d36e24d06f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CF 10592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113d7.bin
15b7fd84370612120bb7465b62eefa65b732417a722fb134baffa932f09cd204
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D7 16812 bytes