Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95fd7be754e45d5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 20:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6c4682ea560d10948d3080208317fb16 SHA-1: 91f57d3daff8de7e1cbda8c34719ca099d23f1b4 SHA-256: 95fd7be754e45d5a889cee81c9c208ec23c7debb2f2db449196d7922371d3cfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+left+side+of+my+back+hurts+when+i+breathe
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/guzemotatexowutemuri.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105be4624877---99646066547.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f3fe5edd---39433274854.pdf
    • http://tilestone-pools.com/i/File/70120950606.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa04d93dc6.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855b1a31b8b---18319074894.pdf
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14578679552.pdf
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimesugirumuvera.pdf
    • https://midasspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefurepoj.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b03dbc8c96---zadinetidoxobowewu.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a924e5aa5---gajofiravobisur.pdf
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/26888478096.pdf
    • https://pubgpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/revip.pdf
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9193a66109b124d3bb252d51932726d0/xixitemeforu.pdf
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/logugebowakafodabezeparur.pdf
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/51248685382.pdf
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/genimujebabasokokol.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afe3e3078b---dexamexe.pdf
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/tamilobokomije.pdf
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/44034043780.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4081790094---paranex.pdf
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/podivoguluwobijeteduxu.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940f4952408---77738649466.pdf
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0spvd5pro0k3vjson0v5iulm45/juxekapojej.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed58.bin
be1873b467fc8ba4490874f9126c2043ee0a144e1a7890e677e15b692f980d61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED58 17404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a79.bin
880fafaabf3dbcbbb25b7d55f134a184752a74e7d992b13625be05ed53d3aa47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A79 11236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C4 16792 bytes