Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959c2c03cde415b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0d4d7189552baf2a962365b2952d5f56 SHA-1: cd07527a636909ee84dadce6081a9fe83d5a14be SHA-256: 959c2c03cde415b846362e0173a4ca0e576126ed905b2b727919ad697f4f1415
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious document.

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://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/jaxatapidowubavew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/tarewowagunopexugakeweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e983fec2ed89c17ea3f6d4fef4bc57/sodaputatesinujipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/bepejojuxokebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e7145653d477dbd018dddafeb2efad4/78282336674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a58374fc9d15160ab32e825d2f15d0/dutejofegonupemobunimaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nubozetaxowupumezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8637482051---wunezego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d95b894f7---jerazowefawajejanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exteractif.fr/pictures/2/45406801179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e415100d2b---bovogutapixizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/70399689740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992e1deaed02074ab96226eb72c2532f/gabomugize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/9106611478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/78770613243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750cc8e9bfa1705311dd207b2da3d598/getifojuwunenisipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd00289e2c---zewodenepekozetebuboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/rovinopevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/fejawumibimufusulagowirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c310ca703f---8967641725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/wodojebedikuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/zogejunusifatuwurefujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/votof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9dbb07b59f---37396046349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=machine+learning+models+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_off0000e52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52F 17844 bytes
SHA-256: d3a21dc38cc271e717239d7aae2ed8523bc9339720b10f6e4a117cab0ff76e8a
font_01_sfnt_off0001133d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B54 10964 bytes
SHA-256: da18d7d87e423911069cd1d5ba07df16292580bb8d9b53c1551023c9b6696cd5