Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b95329b0c3aea0f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b40e62fb2c7a585289815f35fef7b51a SHA-1: ddf970eeedfc9a48c13ef3f0679aa589db0a9009 SHA-256: b95329b0c3aea0f9e693ab784b55a0d59742274382a9bc330b99990f51559430
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these link farms indicates an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://eastmangroupllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xediviwajorivisakedaxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/43197701575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xatodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42306196471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fec9691267---susezabosojaverazetojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/4021876643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/53735856280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/48505387271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323c98bd84f---mupufekolumuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rooptex.com/uploads/49396337286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5cdddc937---debaratotesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696a131aa91834fda4705f273d456773/82938731505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358582118e2---70049667504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/74950978323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/54979694678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/xededabujonulufibeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/1104894135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/bobemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d50322e910e75264b2cc667ab7f58a5/kolidebemubezuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cx-gl.hu/images/files/31029378139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_7D1399328E0E0BD6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210905121724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=watch+then+came+youPDF 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_off0000cc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE443 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 04540fe34302e42e34e5222afce900a49b1d4bc52365fa1a298df95beddfc297
font_02_sfnt_off000111b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B6 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 976dfa9c6ea9a29cbf91a2eefaea4e8fc13e73debac02272852adecbf3ed1e02

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