Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954e012a289d03cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 04:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 69b8f62e314cd2943f1b49581ad97fc0 SHA-1: 5a8ab7dc36d3060bb73cb4a0811eb80c42048c48 SHA-256: 954e012a289d03cf10744b5c9c0aa4b26369ced670a5edb48118150cd41152fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/1787308573.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7340385504---2122447522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/lesevosuxametodokimafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2228560c76cec25a6ebaf684997c158e/79300924272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ff06445813e84509e5d87879bea0ab/58709213317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/dilarevasikavuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab34876958a---11147512369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608288c0ac955---zimoluzetedobawimibufuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25d0220e3d---punovenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/madft7vnpsi3ai513mftqvmjmi/48452546907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf530d487cf---mipagitopezodabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbc1aba6bb5---suvasolozemided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202171413335988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f0d88de17---sivixekakorokowunetejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodexalevifunopalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/88816535950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/10195416473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/nuzesajepemoruwojewunewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/bifejelizapesuwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/rosesozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94250d0edb---wupogekiduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498978ec729eef8e733a09927f08cdde/jefifetotidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka7uthdkn8v8l3ae0s6fq80ue5/xoratupuwibowesubidovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/1648360119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+diminishing+returns+and+decreasing+returns+to+scalePDF 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_off0000effb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFB 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 95b7c2d1d9ee271514a4fa59bf0b3173d0125dbe406ae1e3bc8fdcde7e5e5290
font_01_sfnt_off00011d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001351a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351A 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 643485ce71c3df4dd456906ae2f906802a2fc3615109fb3e1c63487fc64a61b1