Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95884b7fe4814d8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 934a4d9fe9193e662da95bb9c0d34140 SHA-1: 55cee23a9b9f9bc1ba3bb1edb9b889ebd1dd1af2 SHA-256: 95884b7fe4814d8ae7e4a4582cb4b0f90ea8aa480e913304b823315aa33bd7b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a trojanized payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d645c1a235c84385b9737d49bbdd08/16586697594.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d5bdb0c07---vajezale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/zutowinidazebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/gadabonolagaxoxirerekivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d1ce05d16449eac68023ba28e428bff/3446430491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e96d334d56032f7a04f8157c6934c2/fisivimotobobirilabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/poramilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/19788741828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/losezajafupizizazowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/60577581060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/38884012254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/66394595598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/3954474406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/19050347143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/duromerosokuvogeripatira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078438279e54---pimojomemajurafagisiviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/fuzowanewogugawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/32099422142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/56984206028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotaxowikabagawekemilivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/76004179365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betaempire.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/loketosudoxagisimegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/13906858314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/08/file/16302275121319271394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/30378523556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+how+may+exercises+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_off0000bc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD480 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 304cb01c82e19a23e9da3668788103c413d565043d279e62bdd23414170c1a70
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE35 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 80ef39c498a85a39d20d6d24e92cd5a2cf9723afa3a232d3f37727e10376a7ae