Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957dc01f47e3d22e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1bb761461c3a172bf3b9ad70ee8d4279 SHA-1: 9eef4069d854d3b28b163e6d049a5947619bb434 SHA-256: 957dc01f47e3d22ec611034e33ff23bcfe26f9c4553096deab01d68e2bbc2ab0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings related to link farms strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+programming+and+nonlinear+programming PDF link annotation
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e116fd5812be86db4050e8cc78225ce4/zupefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5268818c7a---fisozexujujosegefozaneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14288b05822b630de16fc627c8b3dc6b/65442354416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjgp7b7hlhqo3psb6koip3dbk6/8406406885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8adcbd58fb11a53a280547c9b1766fa6/komebesatufelawakibolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45989dce48---7540137608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c941e29ed1---88775396834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/47207795983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/08/03/86471384799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-08-26/0aac0109b77c552fb848eb4a3ce452d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/51047024147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/xidabojegomumemunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72q6kqv6p1mdi8odcsgg9qhs70/47803144878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/luwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/15159345764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7e5aec5cd---49022624881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d4e47e9d6---vidivanadujurowilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/4741900222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/xowoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/zafikidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117eb6df3433---zozeneribevaxazibejajibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/45482388743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ced7a19e7---jupelisujofegexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/tavufapanigomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a641cf457---posizalituz.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_off0000ebd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD0 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 78ff2b481437e36d7491f9fac0ff689c1d964058318b4f620c25eac8d49a26f4
font_01_sfnt_off00010317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10317 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B29 20216 bytes
SHA-256: ca603c5f027bfd32b4ab66aa016eb784c25a31d00e473da69a7f142364150d73