Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957ff09e70a34ca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 03:45:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6fb9dc1f223073bc9d06d50e501c9c15 SHA-1: 95bece7f0f3c41d626a6b1890090def2db157177 SHA-256: 957ff09e70a34ca50ef61eb52d4279d566a5868d5f58317c7a624f87dfa7cab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://hirurgija.me//files/1651184739.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smitheaster.org/clients/861344/File/texetadejesimozerasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e6676cbf9---55422610258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d25de08979---75713428287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f3vnbquler19amc2hftvte57/97140564443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4psjbc7ng2rb9q5rge4mvs375/pugalegezetemanasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp5mk81vgilg7a87ja0a9gcjcg/82346927852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac4724bcd7---loxawiwifasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sreaq3lkf390r4bi8706lramn1/dufelenututiwavuvatasuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cad5e7d3e39f07882161af1cb985740c/fajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb43a150178---zojojizurobujibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebf983e548---39626785817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/fevinolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e26c47cff---wepefetiruxigokewojawodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/zivatupunavevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609702e735dcd---79945084730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/88453931378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0dad28574---17362993462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/zodirokiwobafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35e8184d7927c901d611499b5433eed1/siwonitejetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/36563471019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78519196094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/90615381417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/ribabazevorafutelepegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=gu%C3%ADa+farmacol%C3%B3gica+para+profesionales+de+enfermer%C3%ADa+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_off0000d232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD232 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA49 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 57a7af824f86d0611da854711d5bf88dfc7479b81ccc2b1ddc4e77094c3041c1
font_02_sfnt_off000103f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F8 16604 bytes
SHA-256: d3540b9224b0b63263ea5324e17d8f2b085b94af9d5e6ef111e0d364c1d2a27e