Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95b2321d378f0b0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a0c85c7d6965be6f3edbc368caeb40f1 SHA-1: 4ce4960b3f94ae9e1123d66a125714b964575ccf SHA-256: 95b2321d378f0b0f66e34cc7b82a439685e0e4feb57bbc162879cda5b2e1cf10
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in one URL point towards a coordinated effort to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picsart+pro+apk+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/pagikemosokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/23677848871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3412dca531ff8706cd6d604fef23cfb4/fuvojijagogadesigoxekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430b46246fc---vuwudibubagoribasufaxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/damesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22202711514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131404792942---30157950821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19928243475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/80182653337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisonupigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochkari24.ru/pic/file/nexutuzokawujujijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/nusefubojovigujanoleximek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokobenizezadijifunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smlt6bfh7it9ked3hsadog1pvc/dekefabuguzerisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc2138ad1f---wunebikebipaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/75364979492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109110220336318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalight.lv/uploads/files/83677599214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210906044652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/xudajutiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c407db93d2---simajoloropexeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87985628270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/26744218670.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_off0000c30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC30E 16052 bytes
SHA-256: f6baef1ca816c6f9734450d48ce1002018edcf8f7d44e17069f86ff050f17106
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF9 10792 bytes
SHA-256: c0dd66bfdb399ea74bb93d3c475640ae5e1aa8404eedc528fb3bc9c0b9428f97
font_02_sfnt_off0001050d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1