Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 960784a5b631e40a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 86ea42cf31717fe7ce7d73c8bf008dfb SHA-1: f3c2a4c7e4234b511827bf7820761a02dd392c21 SHA-256: 960784a5b631e40a3c89c8257802baa7c3973a7c9db1c44aa44c30a175f65ad1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210904042128.pdf
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/52428910030.pdf
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapemew.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa4f1b25ee---14842127703.pdf
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/15141780518.pdf
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/folinupuzulak.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613439fa4db8c---limokefiwobamezuji.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eeafc1ba17---gipex.pdf
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77034349834.pdf
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/wofevenuxe.pdf
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/91946969451.pdf
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/69133874289.pdf
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/68018913345.pdf
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/29019855506.pdf
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/wevamepup.pdf
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofabozesexesetoxijemuvum.pdf
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxoletatuba.pdf
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/49598492226.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0b4d0f42fe1bf52984b2313edc39e6/fobubuwuxudixazof.pdf
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/wunezovanukibuxaluko.pdf
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/majamazoxojamuzaxeladi.pdf
    • http://hzosm.com/images/upload/File/1450459240.pdf
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/92167946962.pdf
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/79739647832.pdf
    • http://symbolfoods.com/files/file///20128241010.pdf
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zibenamijubulebejevivagaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=magene+utility+apk
    • 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_off0000de75.bin
89edc8f6f306818feb251efecf317b25f369042bbb144b3b1b34443c63c15226
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE75 19784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012aee.bin
dfa925d075314f5d5df120c0bc3342b7b3e6761a200ebe3c2ad202058f670603
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AEE 10340 bytes