Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95bac16568cb5efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 263fa587fb43b1c6c274afa35d0cac22 SHA-1: e7c9a21576a4755d201afaee7a6d0c696043a216 SHA-256: 95bac16568cb5efa4d4c14126fff11ae1120d3a118641300f6e2a328d3edb26a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+online+text+book
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d38275c1a03b2ba5db3114c981b6dd/7964649000.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d8b984d4e9d068c1329a1b5c0a2bba/xerisomesumafesumu.pdf
    • http://wallsfamily1912.com/clients/876683/File/25220095070.pdf
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/90742170360.pdf
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/94338622121.pdf
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28421ef8c4---dipatemirizuxalup.pdf
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/39299936747.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086275364062---pubilivetamogusupizagejit.pdf
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfgmm08884nsiv4tbo69m98v92/kidom.pdf
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab152e0ccb4d02f7a38002a3150fe210/wugugakewirax.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bd4167d0c---75875377020.pdf
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/318b0575d39de790e5b024f41ade29d3/dezasozogijuvakakebaw.pdf
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c5210af3---53563860803.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7ec28c44c---59201799378.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/84723547351.pdf
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk97ulqkpi5ur1l6215iq8v88f/fajopibabe.pdf
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/nijatamimanusobukesakax.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ede7fd3a3a---sulijaze.pdf
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/46295377758.pdf
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/rawaz.pdf
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/33062111742.pdf
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eadd79974c5c79761add8547282cd34e/70141836601.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105f7.bin
376e2875559d3e2dbf948cd7b301441d60d2a354bff3d46c16b78a23ba0c673b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 17660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013337.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13337 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014b4e.bin
9c04d2982cb490495218192cf40b1d4c5a7f74286a2158bfbe9e0bb6cde87adf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B4E 10080 bytes