Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959bed86dc8aa392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 55957e64aaeffb355a9171f0a66b8eb7 SHA-1: 1c354ee592345e844d5180cfa14d60fa4f35d17d SHA-256: 959bed86dc8aa392f18e994f62955c691a989fa0b866d49cc25cecd505c3afbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose appears to be to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites through these distributed links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/sirovivofomuwolavap.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e6740dfc5---20852539963.pdf
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/xaweliba.pdf
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72u2vfa21vbpp1qnn2ukj07rqs/83535271586.pdf
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/xejumedexijajimozuraxikin.pdf
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/82459035688.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada8a0080edc2c83b2e6278020c9b44d/ginudapula.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6v15u5bvhlffam4pcq0ie1asq/jesuvuresujakaxubedizazu.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098addca41b6---76796023626.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mqeobg83foi8lovng1rbocsfc/40057058681.pdf
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/nujobiwew.pdf
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/bugewizenenezizufadam.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m24ln6lk75vioqq8c2dbhde8g5/luxuxezajiwefezal.pdf
    • https://metal-et-verre.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ririkalajekomuvolatamav.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f036341d032---71216070186.pdf
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/34920347947.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fd93d9f3a---neraketofuki.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071269c73ec0---mixemagewezibadokuvi.pdf
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/61858469454.pdf
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/74137721075.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608127909968b---xesijibijajesuk.pdf
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/sonogafutejaveperow.pdf
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/53759656476.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=easy+division+problems+with+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dba2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b4.bin
9f2b814b3f7066297e3352f40c9de92fe1219b973a009042815d9c7bb5cc7f4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B4 16752 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee6.bin
0cb6c29ec8663b0904aa139c35968a0f080ba01a0e2b0ac58186452566feb4b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE6 11048 bytes