Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95dcaeb04f758571…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 245f27a92b79ca2a8e7eccbbec96638b SHA-1: 4e01e709fd30079d1ea5c635311924edfba2591d SHA-256: 95dcaeb04f7585713d11c7d5df6221470a1d1a84ed601b71d46509eb7bc52b2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure and the nature of the URLs point towards a phishing or content-luring attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56ee8753b11f4c1f1c7f20ea8f906cd/10138945146.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/001ea7441034e21c48c4076314190ab9/72046239991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1eada4d1a---tedowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede98b1df1f---20223999577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609486295b9fc---47063371764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/bobusilexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc2onnukjp90eq8amdul5llf2o/pebamisewavafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domainecomps.com/documents/files/lepojirelifipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8k8v86vs2epb8p3fmecbmriv5/36673086042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae853b73830199b33a5f026e6727c98/77529350043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/72020910571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/guvisimolarewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bf5f3daf9---wulemubopesiwenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/mogiludijuvakoraweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/43357668055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/vusuzadobigagezemegulamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608428110cb06---larejufisatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d877fca2b6a24a5698be71ad185dc0/xuwukitisawufaguvimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d18131a722---fapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2351f6df7e7592cf08b02487707d6bb/gabagavegufawirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/44531955238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3c32c99a22---36136573212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/bujobajorujofegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=latest+counter+strikePDF 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_off0000eb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AE 17440 bytes
SHA-256: d59bff695b0b1bdd8a4c1e159019a0cba1d9eeae20bf04cde463643bd42f692b
font_02_sfnt_off000130f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F1 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 97ed98d32fe5def6c40473bba4e5da57619a466bffa1cefffb4c37b9b84e7b6b