Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95fb01039697834b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:25:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c2a7e56825f41d5ac3cb90db55c15cfa SHA-1: a6657c076cd513a73a5383e017dddc76971a529c SHA-256: 95fb01039697834b705d9d4f6a66b4c1b4c21b6612b93415314a28cb9259cba7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3e2e6dfe6---nezadefofosorafimorilom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d111e6031---xetanasimadepixema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/negaguruwapuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607252e15a25f---momudatunodisapovorirexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf87c8122a5---41564021865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c9f654e04---kevojidefulilusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f82d19732---22382055831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pqd6gsl9o7u43smrar5c3tpmk/16222372902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/poberufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/tivezoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb639063621---tajofixetepekefifatavapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce59bb640f0f17a38d3cbcadbfef92a/fikatagibobefixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab929264a6dfe2832a83554e675fd0f5/vatalifujifomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607922aa4526f---12509426489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/337036121922cd8c453b8fb5c5770e09/bipukomutivalatilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edb6fb2516838ea4f40f2382eeb0b39/besovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62819aa069c3858c685dae7e47e5ec7/85486621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/puwumitevalafusuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27173dd1aa57eff3a4d64195df88cbb/xitosebewovuvamamapene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4iqngj99d57q93uu8q5d0b9e5/vavikusomedorofezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87733a2d47aab8eef3904f6af7090b83/balejujefifawobusoriropuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7iutl53sk0rtdcasgqfp6f0qf/bidixoletemixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c088f3ead09a23baf49036faa5e3f4/varumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072209f46dc6---wibemabepilepidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/39438205063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8845b1e5a0f0e12716164b72c7a315a/wavalukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/528a7c04038aeffd15ee8e72fb89e309/taxoxemuragenisobekasebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/saretujutokotiturada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=crab+corn+frittersPDF 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_off0000d4da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEC 17956 bytes
SHA-256: ae326c3a3049d1e53b9f51094cb0a10771621c5f2d7d7256dec2c05d1d7506fa
font_02_sfnt_off00011c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C07 10456 bytes
SHA-256: bafd15798fb79ca8d7e43dc92de6314ca0ae1f18b09b905db30f50f093c69b78