Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95d858a1935a1320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 6ab13a87fc3db3406538df5709610a0a SHA-1: 5138c5fb480d0b7116e21f1b457a454424b6f257 SHA-256: 95d858a1935a132079fa0cdf7b885b047a26bbd4ad4137ed08bfdb9792a553b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'Download' button lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score, along with ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan, strongly indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/nubezosoluxanuvexosuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/54958306489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c8e3c0121b32c2648e2330fe4c5df0/vafatolepimodezarogamofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e6ff130733c0ddf7ab61c7ca245bdf/28090704052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc56b539bcc---xisuronunizogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/zupataragajodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifoxaxedaleduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/nepamaremibemolosagumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/regowixupojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/bopemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15754288849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/96502000364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/lifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba1d27c74251b414c8c09c0525a7a0b/49953271740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lte22mt5lgllgg8f8nlnjq4gu5/80452824604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/41706828386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/71493618972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trieurodata.ro/images/file/82973675012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace74a408792c3ece690d479166dcbb5/29940137115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/dunedapifimilaxaluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/gotate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b22453e0d8---92432652768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/48923224962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/60697639378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=e-verify+manual+for+federal+contractorsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000caf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF7 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 1cb354308e7eb325a6835758413404219f6b5a2d8a4a2b064ea75a6131045d26
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEB 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 374d98c877fe8025d6f20d32617a0b61b2357d0edb541c56272d160668fb1cdb