Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 958111173e1b79ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8dd2db962c9e53d64bfa1cf77d251140 SHA-1: 88afcc51a478185afe1193a8038d86deee12be2a SHA-256: 958111173e1b79eeac2bced9126ad3ebf136d389ab815117d747424759a388c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to exploit user interaction via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+from+internal+storage+to+memory+card PDF link annotation
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mametesoxulavimijaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51781451620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_0C3642DA263F12DA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6645713603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623935e933e06de9550b672c6b4901a7/pegaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69229868149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/10140932583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/xotudefazirovisigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagupesajivaniwufimabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614030c27dbce---90051400535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/64033052470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1092725690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/17822875990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/79739644604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/kowifimuvijazewukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/7885692859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/nekamovetodisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/rakobitepafumova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99590407e8c38c9989967b95a631d88a/gedolega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64045905676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassonconsulting.mc/userfiles/file/rakuzobakitetikukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/kuzefufadizivilejijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/61583845085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ce903188e6d60a5467ebeb864e8ba7/78157146625.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_off0000db87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB87 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 44877a72ad1d5ae5ac13d8f65971b86b5eb6f86bdffe19a3037385467407d4bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D07 17708 bytes
SHA-256: ade18d8ee6a7d4998d7a753b618f77fe193e2e4de331b149e19b9a27be5a31f3