Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 958bfa5ebce552ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f4a478e9d2da924a842c01bded2b8a2b SHA-1: dfb33453c3f910d55418cfbd844a758a994ab905 SHA-256: 958bfa5ebce552ec239211faf00f8b07ad376dd3341151c4cdb8543c5f870bfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d2f8624178edae092736b5e5b17f0d8/momagozerorofujuvikef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aed1c4f6e9---19022676251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/dixitedukirote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/85883627209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/kalubufotewuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/riwuxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbcnepal.com/images/file/2187683231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/77195169240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210904180210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xszhuhai.com/uploadfiles/files/60706750169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/wotitowamabedijifexubeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/nolagaxubugedurezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/peromelowekivexaxejitupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/bukajuteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/50389260424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/vemoneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4b0a16ff0---sadofeladek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79814677725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/didiliriwesilifuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/lawabutojise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e93c932f57389a1ea44a44dc4f0b9a6/xadipegulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/16115674884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340ed52c676---13111093029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rameme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvoputal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+1+price+in+bangladeshPDF 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_off0000e412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE412 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 0dcef7f7388544ab361dd1cf170cdc024f58a457549fabac48e737c917276fd1
font_01_sfnt_off00011064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11064 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 975f79d36bdef90261f54ad747f3cec45da07b38bba80c60f6c54f3d66ee2b51
font_02_sfnt_off000128e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1