Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a95ddcf543ddd295…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-06-23 21:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6fd8a50c3a4ff13da2fc304306dc5a6f SHA-1: a00098873cda13e6e200879b8ced452e600a0262 SHA-256: a95ddcf543ddd2959823516403d1f4ee90b09bd24d6c7da1081ee3cee3e77bb5
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 Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress installations. The presence of numerous external URIs and the classification as a link farm suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d10f219a398051182dd827184e61eac/satorugizakezibojume.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/383ed751659dc50a030ce940da92d980/89523011757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a05e6d6478---91532686599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b151269cd00938620dcd92d13259af5c/dizadekejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/36911129398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a5bf691c6---23161514393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19d44fbed7143e36f1e2494d10e4f779/4200025799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/70524550236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/una3ar5u1drinscnk8pbgmshe6/wazoragotezojuwedivareti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/jedapomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/josusugimenumivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/kapararotutulamugezatarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb6e79ef2---53331660022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef41f80287---betowuzowuwunimelibiwekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de8f2f6777341032186a0db6f3159a7/10675077847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/46891497909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=beginning+c%2523+game+programming+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F1 4500 bytes
SHA-256: 5e1ea918275bcdabf6eb076356fe11de6bff0ddfead0f416a1dcdd43cec2bb0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE464 11932 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb91ea44d6cc440de56e6d6011b00b211e36424fcbf7c9d0c903ef7bc75714d