Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 995913d9137842c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:43:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: be03c7a0993de38f9cbe16eddfcbeceb SHA-1: 8c96f163801d09763e70edbb5c78958c0a8241b6 SHA-256: 995913d9137842c78c6d982713477920d0f7a812a734dd790ce1299603cec5d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://raykingcarroll66.com/clients/2/29/292092747e06e0ab09130fa737b110c0/File/73088584266.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/vixokorokujesikekoriroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/nofevufipakububib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apogeeconsultancy.com/upload/files/sadararavesuzudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57bc65735a---59682270427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/zafunesazezixoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peir4rp7jq7qb5bd16hrcnl8m3/22537537058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/ridaraxijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ad563faad989f8cea6ef929f94a4d1/juwasusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f9eac633b---soresebarejifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/89329001164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73b94a0dfb---30445079661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/59885161091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f8cdc4e69---1117229469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/27758892881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/32805260519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745543d222d---famodiranujadonimoxajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47823d2a8ee19b434f70f4f58ccd30e2/22547075344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1163b850c---mewawerijubijigurotijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/vawirigefazapozurasuremut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glqeplue9lmk52o29v28lvj945/70686851627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/47424758571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a34bbde41---98803087809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=obesity+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000e7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7ED 17648 bytes
SHA-256: c59d1956a010d664ed93fb31a8ae3f7cdefdd20637a2fca0eb0deaf6b8c43693
font_01_sfnt_off0001165a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165A 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 497f85da1d455fd9d606db9a460c259a79ecf75e02dfe20a4588383be18d06d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1