Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c40069325d6442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 10:31:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 04b9340e5d22001091791d7a43c6afdc SHA-1: 7968809be71dfc7f511f3f0c4400014992bc3eaf SHA-256: 95c40069325d64423eb709097cbff0fa34712f900a5057c8b9e14c2cc62373f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely involving JavaScript execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+bachelor+season+21+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/sawufitufepatuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56821713930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/waxerisizijoguxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/kexedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/firexejuniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee2cf64133bff04d5a62d75f3d35492/birozanonunibavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/41869593020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/xavexejebevononabonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebakotb.net/userfiles/file/raxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/01/97042097835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe8a483d4071f7041e060049aa802794/17528257066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/59946331916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soswzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/78852865605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/2776265904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/37735146575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614558419f4ca---7078470862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/faxukebekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87665168934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887ca4a432fe6ba156810fb146167d11/21365651798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/89447453378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/53161657536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/6973815396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanupuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/35973611586.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_off0000de7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7A 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 3a641fb1c350ccbd58be7496bda81fbd12a1e6b6a0e186b9aa3cd813fe8cb8c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 18476 bytes
SHA-256: 9f727f3779a8d6a5b0442ba6c7aa2a2dbc51f9e9afdd814a93441a9b94ba5114