Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959c6be61da8080b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 564ea0d33dfe0a7efc00b5d3b3648d92 SHA-1: fa10e030df572fcc35073a6f94cc43c4991afd58 SHA-256: 959c6be61da8080b2975bd0d4e11ff1c3e0f40d874944fa0a92a132525f62f2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest these links are used for phishing or to host further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scary+movie+with+blind+man PDF link annotation
    • http://szjg.hu/images/file/zuvufixiretedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architectureanddesign.it/userfiles/files/nojidigeramobukapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/gilanokamunabozupogulatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/sopuwodokuledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/kapibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29767901611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/9984001668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/mitalazawijasuxevusavuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613508a1e7a07---6565201703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/bofedebanini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/dixixagafajebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a3c433fb1---menuzasanexowabunusunove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c424731cb---1108881165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49613298244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/49099616082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/sizuxovawerizixexezole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c78bbed1c---sukunofavisawidufakuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/xibawovilijefatizupuvemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/23543395407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/16213489654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/wetuxubetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60948532912.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_off0000d885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD885 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 94ddafaba8439c630cd28185b2a167f26312ec126e7eff39e221f23360002b1b
font_01_sfnt_off000107ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD1 10948 bytes
SHA-256: fd4616716dcb0032da672dc0ca91f72c257f4cf8089ee2920bc6662a6422ef09