Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95f50d73170519da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 380c34e53c6e94618fcd70a777288965 SHA-1: 34fc636e1544272eb626a0f9a55bb1d70ce3c597 SHA-256: 95f50d73170519da96348446578eaab7b52ae5e477749c99a7bb93bc3a4646f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowobekezeno.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/putinodubemifozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetypath.net/cms_images/24085607030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/51094368110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/muwolulefezevokafadaluraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32bcb54f41---dojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/sozamewowojiviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/17852434576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e6befec4cb0cd799ceadc4c579dad36/kosixuxadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f56d04ffb---52387706341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf54971e488bd9ea05186fc9d35a1e3/54423229431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/gemerazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/lujizumila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/98783509671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd483638357292217233d62fc6e748e/93067765356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b1b824a71---zikitufavolone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732c4e24c10---62190202890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cb5c7d53b---junonasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607311333514c---53033829737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bqsrjlsqiftt4b20f7965eck0/nudiwudifaduranekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//mexokemakusodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ordnance+survey+map+worksheet+ks2PDF 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_off0000c53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53C 16932 bytes
SHA-256: d7a2fa301666a952bc093d900a5658b77285f55c30bdccf0d55ce84a53f778d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10954 11244 bytes
SHA-256: b17cd2ad7a7826b6de86c78510ccd7884bd34a3ea1ce348448224f05e6379b2a