Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 964cd55d5e80257d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:45:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3665a7c20f2f08a9c73f6c27222a68f8 SHA-1: e2d591afccc259b7c64b12fb8f13fd94c3b9aa83 SHA-256: 964cd55d5e80257db17946529c9802e4e64a790919505b8381598332f82f608a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The PDF structure itself is also flagged for containing duplicate object bodies, which can be used to obscure malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106132216206415.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa3dd8dd88---11899378862.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3442e6805b68819944e154d3672c9f1b/65133230484.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e90ca7686---33695471444.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b732b5c0792d2c88b26d7915cebc09/vuvefirefulof.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aseli8vd7n91gpa4igqdtc6b62/58358921133.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d94bdd7329a32f6384226ef78af695/11422354747.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovawamozevalisisa.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf2720bfc---87307910821.pdf
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1b99a7c9f556cae3ad28e0e6ec4ac5/21508513315.pdf
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/lafor.pdf
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f609a260900a5fb18fc8152ac0382970/vezekudajanufepogi.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89cbf2ebbba21588caf813fc2988e9b9/demeputivi.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/bigoxeworilekane.pdf
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/sobesa.pdf
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_7F98F44C49F768FE.pdf
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusixiwojorovoxejuli.pdf
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f4373859c---sololositojulemu.pdf
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/47866672459.pdf
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91570da7e2---54012678493.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a22575998---30012535534.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0eb319e333---30457614927.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=corn+chowder+with+poblano+peppers
    • 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_off0000f22f.bin
f08a9dad2e98b85ef566217756fd91d7b8d525c90a1722e780d4b634c52d232e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22F 17728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000120c5.bin
8179c02347231380ef61d57281eba7ebab9d24c6fb984ca805c280e801763a8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C5 10868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000139a5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A5 16792 bytes