Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95b29bc3cc04fd58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 05:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ceffa405d13805fc581a74281fb6b5f6 SHA-1: 46fcf394135c5ea3a3ddea23cfe0234b203a39f3 SHA-256: 95b29bc3cc04fd58264534ce1ffa2c979f205892924fe48fe425b2899b42e2f8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, directing users to download files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs suggests a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3818d743e---birosirolusafamufezufefe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojelomenawetoxumalaxarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8192b56f0dfa0505a0213d593509ed25/77779100959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e22bc1cea3---74193270082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potya.com/45223265968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace9dfd6e9c---46257121103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f2d96cf7---tukemosanaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58ee0cbb5---neken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/nowewagivodabelinokakati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/30130534557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1093616789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents//files/75482893485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/ranilifuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7dc98ccc87---setedimexenaxezuzenawazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/11936164612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a8868eace33---xebasiwofosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda470238778420a0b97bca78f031b4c/tufigikadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e56f06ce92---fanomewuramokifafawumozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b695c283414053134644e6d6ce050988/61205453886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb196c860a0---zatulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de916ad6c70641910b3571ba8450357/99277506830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf9a3172e---55831479559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/baposemoriripijepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=editable+blank+california+driver%27s+license+templatePDF 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_off0000dfc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC0 11096 bytes
SHA-256: e48f682cab5240c10bba97fd678d08cfa2dfeb6df9455a25a38b9e588c8f2527
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96E 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 9a9cdd518b2f2f38cabd8266a5f1b0c0d7c2806a8320bdb02e15a183b2bb06e4
font_02_sfnt_off000126e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1