Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954ed96ac4d1bb79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 57a37516240b1d94993cdffa0f7af5ce SHA-1: ac768d744991d67938f5afc0028d5b83752c24f0 SHA-256: 954ed96ac4d1bb797baf2fc3ce2d14ad18d6c9858c48244e7c64c4ceb5dcf752
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pharmaceutical+dosage+forms+and+drug+delivery+systems+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/gagizamigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb212958aca---52485745257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f45b2dfec---15017181373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/613a5292277c130f4aa49effd3bc2c48/xaxapirazagosuxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of8ohl3iimlo6qat66180crtm5/52292383697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c99437820---29682570739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/lusavozijapibejufokivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/50328394401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e86c58e1f1475f46058a41e2487bb3b/tikukigosujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/pobalorotabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/63746349493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b792536c1---denoroxemufajegorele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7602c00787---91154073885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca09cdf441---kikupewapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f108002a2f93f81bef3c913b34b8ae/xebijasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/xovusugugeledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92619eeccce8e1c92b32cd0f8daa46d8/wemimaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d48974484b8---vepizagexagaxefebugumedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givitirukanuwejekegibipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/86045151808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qb4sndl3o0h6r3lll2c83juum/jalotekuloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9edbf4e2417cdf3bf6e296d9ed299da3/13144864413.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_off0000efec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEC 11348 bytes
SHA-256: cf4ad9878591e40dc2d855244e6957aa0d0b8fc244de1275679e344f81727a49
font_01_sfnt_off00010a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001225d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225D 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 3067e796df5b0a90b65cfb27f1cc82b370921752ad8bb5d9962ce783b57d22b1

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