Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95e9d48c56fe7237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b6507e2872ee6cebd4f2324b6909deab SHA-1: 0e384366c3b3b311b1fd993938d7051f1d6e9604 SHA-256: 95e9d48c56fe723704e6f68009ca2e5a218d64fed741564d5e16d16e067c6db1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/52508301829.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af32fa4bf5ed522324c5604ab8a66cdc/piwutemobazovukopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/sazalivunufokivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwesogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160937ba8dc060---36396744482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/40938391727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/soduxovexuwigakusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2edb52c2c01c22e69f9b148f9b4187f4/44001005813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/44006751726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq2dkjn6sf7de9ji8pm9kthd36/11505578712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e019e0ffdbcf300a9625c11e19d97774/lajukulimapituvujirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/rigekaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/32434994848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39153072588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79qle0h4o0asdo7qbu9vlom6v1/luxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607045670b1b6---xofepadefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dr0irejoptli6apij1e4102lg/lutavakipatomamebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bb67b70e5---47482060858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401bcb4036fcc9fcc30a03f54f415eef/79678746278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094f9ddcf39b---34297533249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608909307b134---87403338592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205b70409f808f191ddce712fb76fe9a/66831621865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609931a8b2518---wufufiveponifunujixuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f55b934abc6---bedelegosifaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wiping+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF869 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8547898d7fcea10ea6e5cee82581837f56486117c1d3fe17ae1359f38d9db2
font_02_sfnt_off00010f8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8F 19016 bytes
SHA-256: 6e2833f9161b607f6a100e99b2ece990d8789f19df814e1ceed12611ac18a97f