Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95439ea8bd005a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:35:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 61fb7100e2c1eb631b5064f7c9f7c811 SHA-1: 962f8191ef50fed1cd1678a56b084eb5f9b944ea SHA-256: 95439ea8bd005a43f3eb02a856efa484b849b576bdaa5e980fddda1d75314b71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phishing content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/pitorelatadutipap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/1235867652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/sezutadigefexoresimuzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304cdded061---zofejevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/62833220091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/59635477294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/44037570882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/nipawavixemaxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/68681084742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021911929556789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/55804993213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pate4me.com/userfiles/file/tazinutedegawutato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210902_224852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likizozibakagigejozedujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2991476377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210912101758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.eu/userfiles/file/movisusabixuzodefobine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/figodawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/9101981477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/fowofunuvopenagikune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3f75a82f7---10438563746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614004813c0c5---xubofajuferofekaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/11287160574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dbdd516a0---24759691257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=security+app+lock+downloadPDF 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_off0000c1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C0 17156 bytes
SHA-256: ba684e63ac513337152742d6b7c5ec90f5822021d4ebbd49c53f7a905d620791
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001054e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 68bd49a36c66aa0add499039ef9fc7da718fac2ec02e3496b6ea5af35efb2f9c