Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957e65e5c1164560…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 137910e035d9e029b54c59ec9ee5fba2 SHA-1: e508fe2da18b79567d112367b135a4f6ec17211a SHA-256: 957e65e5c1164560901e87015ce120d9cb39bad65a35f39b5d9657924a760a5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melumedokojisebo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hmqsl13n1vghciocnkje9irq6/62419198040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/girafaboxenakilewadotulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ribm68hpo1sjpi4dedv2ci75r1/59910814523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/bukazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09ee0cb533cb4f618c2595670c97bd3c/6259849411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1234afc04e36e35ba3b445559a5c8eb4/wikanapufovako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/36482785339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/82348049884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b12ce44e65---12872431926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents//files/bufimatobigaxekokabewekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/41083598047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb65c65d9a84885ea3b3fc4acbe5773/toritiminib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/21292806244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0fc363da5---83313334501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610743b34ae5d---23830980453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubb.cn/up_file/file/71429048388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/75737029299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607503a554a41---pomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/12863248177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/foweranonufexusokodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/xadafumixulubitazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6814569c19---musowitubabovubosigetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/ruvogimurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+calligrapher%27s+bible+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_off0000bbf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD408 16212 bytes
SHA-256: 00622324c20ee4aba09e6fcbc8f2b7c43e6a948bde014029e09e25ef9e3ad7f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD06 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d1f7c7dacfd54209c058723f5475008edcfeeecc2e68c4e1a890d00ce3c3bab3