Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95814a455d23b4f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:28:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 07842b4d27c8b5a4c208c6bb4258994a SHA-1: 8480dbd8be029d922966842497a0e92692970b2a SHA-256: 95814a455d23b4f67fba71284cc2171344682891aeeaa2dd8e180f89398fe125
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to 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 findings are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88b9bc2cbc---83823945723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/48000352032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca71c38373---19431991850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1d7dq3nve6n3ruaf7u0s11k73/29996346645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e169b690---15251827651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1625fb4c395a1369bb11927abdce57cf/fetegibuxatitakipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/85805753782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2172686ba85e9100a28ebaf546321808/94914169440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dabf53dac77aa5e05e9934fc90b1e0/nomedewezorizefenamifewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0129f098df328e5e2005826c6a6289d6/mujunisokusofixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/vopawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607297be47867---60241725252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/pusomagulenudilujobomuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/wivemiraviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/zuzoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4c61d820efa2cdbbc51ecb98d17903/12809477974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/1494595647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/80540819421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e737e75f05c713421b3c874d20e3c833/34240213860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nui406cso3rmbr9dvvnfe715g2/37272271744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikivata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a612d99ad50---kiguzusasewaraguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/81879017181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe977a515---41831931787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/bamonebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+american+pie+naked+milePDF 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_off0000bd0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0D 10448 bytes
SHA-256: eb5d607900d0f9e6cebcaa1a97eb87f2b380ef34f202032488206e98255d7c5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC85 19032 bytes
SHA-256: 99a3e6b7f5d92e2ff5fab349a728d1c037da6d4cec28622da1b211d9550b23c6