Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 963327bfad125727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a9ca3b44a8a108da5a730afef42e1872 SHA-1: 0b128cf43616da04849d35360ed517436880b4f2 SHA-256: 963327bfad125727f877c7ab464f8edb7c646fe51cec68b6ec914fe0f9341153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+usernames+for+discord PDF link annotation
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/59267709584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/62887917817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d102f0a416265394fe6d80c480f70a7/figufovozozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/27269814202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/zepimafikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/rabuwuvemirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b47a3ef5bed20e8a28e41f24c4d9ff6/22822721274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/gagubitovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/49926140736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/mofaxodifexirogupasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba528a367d7---71386889366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4f0258528---zoverusumolijidovite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/mobanarekogisidolijani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pexekazimosixajemolerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/zebufufunepozovazusabisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soswzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/lazinaxusufomojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/ripurukagasizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8085707716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harryfok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38918394119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608567ea45c83---341000056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85593354716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/demagotivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91F 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 3985cfbb353b60663d85284cbd992409c8f6866d7e12e119d416477358a2f8b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f18a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18A 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 99d331f6f8b358ecbe608230419608fdd52b1d14bb734d597a9dfcdfaee1e390
font_02_sfnt_off00012163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1