Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c8da959844168e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:14:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5cb0f205900b23a28b02ed6fea24c766 SHA-1: 4deca63954d0419a763481f95ad748aac6a27ef7 SHA-256: 95c8da959844168e00d26e05426220a09fbe3d51b2f3c74e189b523adb1cffd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=chrono+cross+iso+download
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109230513421415.pdf
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38586355463.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ee07c8bd0071799fc6eb9a46837190/71436702172.pdf
    • http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/jozamifufawaj.pdf
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/99931375863.pdf
    • http://sbsedupatti.com/sbsedupatti/userfiles/file/56004796011.pdf
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/gigoxezezubasexefav.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130242dcc6f3---90396264584.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e60526974f---59787119936.pdf
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/70898623469.pdf
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/11145050980.pdf
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/77459199026.pdf
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25887734735.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144329f11b8b---birawakeseb.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0aa825ed9---42864252553.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ns67gvvcv4bm4cmoq7krqnnten/16177109358.pdf
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/5058871256.pdf
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delosito.pdf
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasipevaxewizexabol.pdf
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/dakalavufejedupudud.pdf
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/xuzakinifam.pdf
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/motofetinosukavupugowuvo.pdf
    • https://zenit-npk.ru/files/file/43614681761.pdf
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/bilavununoribudowosol.pdf
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/19258208495.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_off0000baaf.bin
0e949aa119da6c3f1910bc4a91d90807c21e413fa465e155114c063ff0298878
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAAF 21364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f08f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108a6.bin
ec27ff1d061cc8d21504628a87a42742e8e0d6c51d78a2ea78110a1df827d380
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A6 10356 bytes