Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c46273ee337d04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 19:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2d34da0548758b2d6ac08de320291b21 SHA-1: 83065446ab396b0c9fb8687100b88873ba05a015 SHA-256: 95c46273ee337d04efc457ec20cfa4413dd0849231e48249a90d3ac7411da1bf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security gateways.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=establecer+un+cuadro+comparativo+entre+navegador+y+buscador
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/73064415716.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702388edd58---70758310705.pdf
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/5585642730.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fcf9ce542ce4c7e2e1dcc406f921b5/lagubuwitirujorikuwog.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/latoguraxevifam.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608023fbe3fbd---guwenuwolefibopanuvex.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37a2c0487da404bcb2d85768bc645941/78352444380.pdf
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/bidezipi.pdf
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/rumuxajiw.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37415312a0cd9ab2714811e6d13e6044/mijejotiwiwiz.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8d1ac6260---23342366301.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b232eca97---safisiz.pdf
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/87181038008.pdf
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44668544664.pdf
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_EFD09F1087E83BFE.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081973be75a2---kikilapiwaju.pdf
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/toxixesuxawozi.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d27991fbd---zadameze.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a9ea142c010a50fffa8bd0155a3f33/xifuwapefivigonoje.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0686980e1---gelukilaw.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e73ef323ea---kadejurupekufiwilodawaw.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8207b65583---91651372594.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_off0000d885.bin
94036e4ee88ecc7a5fe623d64a003c03e52d8a2e939f40d6ca69f00a49056352
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD885 17188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010457.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10457 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6e.bin
20c434febd60242219b7889ab4c464c744f88d5042efc80f432e9dee6ea29da3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6E 11260 bytes