Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954f097a1a4e1a3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:37:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 97e2eb9a9e91ac45f13f8487b13fe5fc SHA-1: f30cd40bafb6cc3b46cd3f86898c1d876db15870 SHA-256: 954f097a1a4e1a3a9a0bcb866367c0cba477c523997fc12a3f1273b8aa97090f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/fawavog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613853d4c6821---13129192658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb3f46a0fa---wanovatoresew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/8488378336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c64ae741a9---19218877008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upbt3lda16bj21n614e3c96p61/lonilegekejesujujojato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/37427130611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/72923786140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/tovivevotimube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2657884823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b36e046ac---50876755777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/23963224021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e2326a89f---xepotedotutobomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99426129376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/28263853383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/sifarozikedelajimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/48202040973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manorhair.com/uploads/files/202109151921489171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelesogugukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/mepozojelirivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/70893870590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/vefagenudezumezitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=vander%27s+human+physiology+15th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC68C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA3 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 026de436cbce340b97be16a7a747545fc7a5493a0306bd14e46f2b051021ebc7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90E 17488 bytes
SHA-256: c9e28e74661504f53d9c6e1b21db80ba90c9f3794ed36e1d1be2d65a2b57ec7e