Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95e3d3ee978b0f77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 17:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e80ed71447fed47eaa9012013b42654c SHA-1: 5d763d9433f72bf50828ece356962ecf8f948f92 SHA-256: 95e3d3ee978b0f7777627ff4558dcf89399778c037fb67c87e78fb2780b5fc4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to phish or distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure is sufficient to infer a malicious link-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jcvp9a25qgnb8b0hqotdauhf7/biribozufutemubepesor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novehorizonty.sk/userfiles/file/43516775817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f937d16a22---42752477227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/mivukubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/zexanejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpjvhgj71n60b3l15aue2eghp5/binewalolimotixigiganuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e9aca7c42fcf909521149c92186ebb/1458715621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc47f22dd69---52393909903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/13775672409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/94672760727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/99759319064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugh60fc2rd7bhev5gp4stksli2/37923374102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1d2b9e2da1ced3ff8b458269c07d15/wezukuzopabukiropisetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/15707088643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3689663eb7086333cc5640618b59318d/38329938434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lochoanggia.com/upload/files/48699937479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/vitureku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a860c1675---pikuxafetusubujededivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a64b9351ac---18814025442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/xiponipexumosewojozitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80694922869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+sectional+from+palletsPDF 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_off0000ff8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A1 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e69f88372fb474852e4db8e4ac8293b4d533d9c671d797401977b9e9816f0ea9
font_02_sfnt_off0001308e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308E 17356 bytes
SHA-256: c9c378ad74b61b2430e247664b126feba7d1e4c31309e200a8c860e42fbe734c