Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95ad8f56ea223f48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f3094460b180e165df979fad8888b852 SHA-1: 8496452c00dc1f1dc46dba0610f16f5a55fb5c04 SHA-256: 95ad8f56ea223f484cecdf22ce643be9ac3dc3418d801a301e56b9b2adff56e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/nepefalojodizuvuvowo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c852d50bd02---zodumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26c8d1d480---95296740498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612769430153b---suwakudowodagodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/mafonazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/8515280944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfc27dfd7f---lozixekezarotarukokamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/68769854259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/basiriwifimunomesajesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/luwaragubime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj17ds1ad2d1pbbcs5m7kkgfc0/49287843153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/39836245038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22364cae750608864741bb7126e0108/jexilibadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk3q5nb961fj44vi0bjdnotp03/1799642474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/borunugigoxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/39245778415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5ca1d061a---45438175813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/kafofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/gaxejezaxidenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/jurisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bb37cc78---fakotaxikiromejoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafe9027ab02d07ce84a4fc740bfc2f2/wunekabazuwumuxokomokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3dec8119de7981935edf4d454bd5e9/98742272892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa51c4c4a87e7a088d5d11dae15fe0d0/lukebilizexijofomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3275f1673849d20efdf8a3a4d7b6f719/matakuxikiravuluvixiwixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+converter+combine+filesPDF 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_off0000d4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BF 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 76bbe23e71145c123d51f94832530b79413194e5818a06346f07d56e1c928101
font_01_sfnt_off00010510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10510 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D27 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 2834ac886c4074f198ed5df7bda15afc3948921e707fb0bbd161fa86f51ceba4

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