Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95b6c87713f64f3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: adc7de7da011d76a136d56bb0ce8470a SHA-1: 24b636ade1e7938d1c431705214deaa7ba908d5a SHA-256: 95b6c87713f64f3ce398486c06145909904142c1bcce73ae65f2d407111999dd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests potential for malicious actions like further payload delivery or obfuscation. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thoptv+original+site PDF link annotation
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/mijetofopegesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///naraxulenujodosonoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/62545439640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newshop.jp/archive/file/97504640585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133aa36a6465---4424392338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuoooo.com/filespath/files/20210915072518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/99417948199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keiba-like.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48170150489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/53128086484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/95077120852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr70m0gi2f2rhqu6c63ngdq5fe/67270376797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmftb46lroub33ku8opf1rb6cb/gagusazogeroxevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3129661514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/12607120629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/bukajejasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/25260782700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/32069719323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/75014484594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/8420727758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/6631485991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/lirixogofijajaduken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/33206438340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaviweminekajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lokenominevilezoregez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/rojilunovizadinakezojixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/tunafutamiligepumotibina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjaindonesia.com/sitefiles/file/93107169461.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_off0000df38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74A 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 793aaea28a484ce7ee68dea6cd3c2f98f90fcb6820e62e998ccd8da8d6fff576
font_02_sfnt_off0001273b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273B 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 9e85e9f98f95b24e578c2824c7cb008b80ea9399e49e750b3aa0d84ad0c57e50