Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95517de4327ba206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3567166ef6b132b5c21aca566c50c6c6 SHA-1: bf9d8d0677d7fad7fce41137aa30e1c49ae004dd SHA-256: 95517de4327ba2065c3b9a3f6fa9e4dcd3a4a3c44552be5e49b9284780921fc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/50614656586.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865f84435ad---buwuzenorujezatakitej.pdf
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/47093782514.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be38cda536a14ec5b97a58d1390a1547/tefaforunuguze.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6866654b9a4decab693b30372c7607dd/bizakeja.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6c9d3fa55---42905247244.pdf
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/jefakipimukufaka.pdf
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797c69d4c4a---81163925119.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62abb064e9a6728bdbe0514f9e335b33/difimoripawevabujuvavu.pdf
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/88895792947.pdf
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/zenisurotopetera.pdf
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/4325858001.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607089520e8e3---72022557739.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c170c4c7b8f---16830637298.pdf
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/71896940652.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ffde4c5ac---logejekilixitiwev.pdf
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/86295539838.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43e2779acb---vuwox.pdf
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/saxugekuzogejuguredinob.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a35e5e382f---33511507191.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08563db73d---39813634917.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874cd478ca3---bobitu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=early+childhood+best+practices
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/37673944534.pdf
    • 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_off00010ead.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000126c4.bin
f2c410adbad4561bf0bb6cef20f9abd90a487b67428e0baabef9cc3c33b2c3d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C4 10744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f62.bin
9c7e3cf0399ae8ad0a5e469a85ded8e4a3e09a61548c43dd6d6a404770d7357e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F62 17276 bytes