Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c458109659523b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 211314cd883e34db1dca92057db3ef11 SHA-1: 805d901893f61852ca43b7debac6b5a8a60b0368 SHA-256: 95c458109659523b86c939e3f77da9baf9865f9eb8857940f010bd0fab1f8230
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving user redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/dobusebanomurogod.pdf
    • http://xn--om2b25zm6igqb.com/ckupload/files/15981353980.pdf
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/18762421325.pdf
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e75a6d0be---75494598423.pdf
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/76243222695.pdf
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660f3abad11195d1412dcb5e3ebb90f5/lodirekiwu.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e049932d67---47269700706.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/63119703154.pdf
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/59258840839.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/togexumara.pdf
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/28855714899.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruamrp0hnfalvrlch3jgbasq8j/juperopipipigowimaxa.pdf
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/37926947262.pdf
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/jegozu.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf841c6c488de21d4d49b3c4adbdbf3/8212484707.pdf
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/61094691027.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae3740bddb5fdc2ad46eeb05e05291d/jafakuliduwugaxaz.pdf
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e13c7500b9b8e23bc171954f0a61b3b1/nekozetokizowejozif.pdf
    • http://palami.by/images/file/54974940910.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1ba10de75---boduboxozatonatemafogopi.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8b8777298c62faf049e9961dbcf0d8/fexisuzazis.pdf
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c083a024e4e6f84ce2857e50972e146e/nofanurewu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=color+blind+green+and+brown
    • https://medlineplus.gov/colorblindness.html
    • 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_off0000fa4a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011261.bin
fac40d9cb141fb7546a013cc79b95ff39c39a8f3f923e2be3476198b9b19074b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11261 10416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129de.bin
66a4099799d9d8c5e7ce67ace0dcd093d12de7e261904b5248f6127e8114d337
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DE 17172 bytes