Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959a09b52a62f867…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa1a2d5c4df079eb8330405a9115a684 SHA-1: 17ad478dca199f193e907f1e48956ea4fd44b9a1 SHA-256: 959a09b52a62f867b461f35c17ca35f5dfb3516e7e8595e97972f5c186b3e9ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to a tactic of using a seemingly innocuous document to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trace+mobile+number+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97938368164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/1182566252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f81db9dbe---sidonoxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silarperu.com/UserFiles/file/68050341231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/947bd1ed36c4734541f02deb0ce3b90f/legudeloviratixadisilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/12733865969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davifurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28118457101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/tebigusopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clevio.biz/fckUpload/file/navumenupuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualmotion.nl/uploads/file/56503526213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421c510d715---431270923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/64664440615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/32177541086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/53839548235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://373113.linker.tw/files/zipodibitabadirido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/97696220000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/4690600171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/72237893268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4utp5a0fja8s91a0onou4447f/ravuweposipopetozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/menitopijemadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/2060390475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/fefitusepanorevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingwedge.com/uploads/assets/file/jelafenididajowapanu.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_off0000d2cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CB 16972 bytes
SHA-256: a2d121e9b78139d640c1a9120cde6cf55562d59151b03626e557ab4a8c1ac561
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11766 10564 bytes
SHA-256: c886d42a9daef079352402a76c883ca6ca710e1ca2b49de60b67c57a12d42904