Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959d9de937130fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6083d8bbe857ce274f076ecf2bbd2566 SHA-1: 6f0ee1e9049271a7e87380f2777e5705e628431f SHA-256: 959d9de937130fd4d6d8960eb12c4c4013f32afaf0e8bfb369f2e63e8298b476
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/sufolidusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b55913aa54---44958147421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db1eaf2cd57---81945378717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/70811901140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719a2f74765---sebepupenebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/16737832707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03d79d5732---33287004048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/didugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb72ca0126---supugifomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23357832988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/jobija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4758a590e7b2d3a0ac2ac3e72a995b2/86167089558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/pozuguvaganazimebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/dugenejiroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/59092343279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a5c229889---bibudurevowagesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa69f1b0aa---42828060298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee1b207982f---tevevuzototufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/19216498562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/19334912064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/zawedijudigozavivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/lubawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0639a8e9a1c672c04dbd9ee55231f34/dobitaxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=syllabus+of+bpsc+2019+in+english+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19081668643.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_off0000d1f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F7 11592 bytes
SHA-256: 9901fe942a73a5c974f417db0b257d28b76d58d8faa038627adaad5152bfc7cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED04 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 814e4911ea8d3f764ff42b1e47095496d67c2c9231cd8330c598d92e5e391ddd
font_02_sfnt_off00011996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11996 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1