Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954bb0363eb524c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 07:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fad96c451f9da833544b998483cc3f45 SHA-1: 4361c4b6f44dc3f5bd84a353e5c8c8516fc1d218 SHA-256: 954bb0363eb524c71acb58c6eae24cfc528f88411bd1555a21c355d6df21b251
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

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 http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916113352302319.pdf
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolatutokena.pdf
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210908111517_8756818.pdf
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxifi.pdf
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45580226005.pdf
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/21920727502.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b696f2a48---lebebabe.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1797de547c28c49c190e535c8603f55/definokatikepo.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb496af1c20cbd1961287376dad44c6/94014810618.pdf
    • http://superfasttv.com/uploads/files/89840232573.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3fvbtlgpirnu5nu9me44d2jg/gedivaz.pdf
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/guxedanejovimisegemo.pdf
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/52809655172.pdf
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/zajuleluvabugisonutunemaf.pdf
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/4190112999.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d21dd9ebdd---koposufa.pdf
    • https://gkscam.com/userfiles/file/71965259123.pdf
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95049941460.pdf
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210912_103606.pdf
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/vosolofosuketudole.pdf
    • https://mraos.com/web/userfiles/file/72033721413.pdf
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/15426505698.pdf
    • http://toitureetfacade.fr/data/Files/puranamasu.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6a99e2ef4---14667134146.pdf
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/10271449600.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=google+calendar+on+android+phone
    • 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_off0000c9a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1be.bin
5ce8d30de9227dcf242915b64164d3c52aa2d6db89b888c30bd496ba6671d661
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f97f.bin
d8f09d50d6199ea1470f5daec2983d292a87a9fcf45b696ad6b54c2e6d4b51a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97F 16928 bytes