Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 960107dff8c2b221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 01:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 513d48f33fbc62f34b62166c4674a195 SHA-1: fee0153a22ee02ca97dac151e1560da9a83430ad SHA-256: 960107dff8c2b221445f3ab74480147c08995bb88d65b9c2aded9b2bfc9dcb63
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs points to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/merovitifomo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://premiersuli.hu/files/files/92702684776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/sumuresodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74987917859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/40182617898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viadagio.be/userfiles/file/bebepidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc793ec6d44ff851fb953c04ca75f20/ruvimemovibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/30710733362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/wufebitirujudogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/97038376827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454ulqjkn02fp0rr8713m97qv1/nowozaxomemigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/75613713981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/navegekabuniwekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/34848664935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/95041743561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210906081310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/79465423779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137591b831d6---10492974523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109112238147137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/dulunagoxopamuxijexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bee4a0f14---bifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe0477485ce05257b205401bc421454/wojuvezigepoxamiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/33442049087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=download+ghd+tvPDF 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_off0000c77a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC77A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF91 10188 bytes
SHA-256: b5cb91518bb156512610aaba843ae6e18bdb69b46d39f7e9caddac8b05bab1a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF623 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 5c65672325040f12f7643eff60e319dcfa22d524e4ae341eb754ed7c84b0c2e9