Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 995543e2c562cd9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 19b94d53d5cc45a055ce8c63b9df42b1 SHA-1: a0425fa90bdce93f186ed065846888caf1176c52 SHA-256: 995543e2c562cd9a1e456668265dcb4a5652860e5782781d13f1d20bd0eb516c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting and links to compromised CMS uploads further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66616057380.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfsopn4u6dl8rdbdmfa2o7jq90/98449167397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210715210107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/27642563745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d3ea14ee0---18295371369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/84589879021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/54236792906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43afe029ae3cbb5e6cbcc73f754bc552/damabozeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/93876529749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/6377152205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.pro/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/98548109819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/dokolifuboxukuxegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a0456013---15822824085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a1459800325ff36262232e69fd0aee/963829997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixazowezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/90769749514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd8f945827c3ca9516a10e130bd5495/wiribeposokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/74735512868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37959417464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125f1611026a---33792348058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210810_000034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76835226952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021071011343180554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/misike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gfh6mqppv4be98d201nviei76/xejebagamemivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602cfe45021030d0682ef9e19cbad25c/42417920830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cutepdf+combine+documentsPDF 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_off0000dab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CB 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 49bd0db5d66625a1ffa1758782465c934ca4258006c1e9ef2b547bd61f39a95b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F99 10744 bytes
SHA-256: bf0bc1cb136ab099c27cb2d2e23cda4b07b0bfcaa4a52fb0d3dca7f8c654d800