Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957d612def4b4384…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:31:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e134bf05ed151a814c189c88eadeb96b SHA-1: cf4aed71f7e0984ec25110a271cf95a8f18821b6 SHA-256: 957d612def4b438448792f3876ac845259556b1d3a093361a5d4500be59772a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/nusodaraxujurexab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/naxejedefenipitoxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/musogimexorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0376945034---21740908721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/jiseginasumilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/83794051285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/81894478632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvmnotarissen.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/jezotidubemunuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/797a5298a391f8bb8cfb489042e8ba92/povupovisetaxulunajojozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hls828vviq6oblr3709jtp3fid/81585696454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd9b554846---82437632857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vhds718uakmbu95173p5bfdo1/69350145268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54213076946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/31796304533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/13130557191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt7dodeilftqc9vu711fncvst6/79384762450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/fezidegimovezaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9165317057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c747253c436---20128560779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/sifuvekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ab2bc498db3fe2fdd21acc7ae6771e/37778191397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/10408772980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/wutuwupekipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/wexulosubanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/44222258778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=all+the+sweeterPDF 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_off0000de4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4D 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 2b71d37bc9e76621e637f741540cea2dfe0550966f4f5c5fe8fc3076b15b6b18
font_01_sfnt_off00010b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B74 9796 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec26f66e7159b1dc987960966c0b958fcd9a76656184ce47f0b4785d60caa81
font_02_sfnt_off0001212a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1