Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b953e6a119a856fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 26dc65de442f3b2d2cce98bcf8103639 SHA-1: 4be21f190d84659f9f5366ccb4899d1086e524d8 SHA-256: b953e6a119a856fc8627b9fcc13af81b77c94f8962c91cdf3cd6ddb964baa839
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u9j02fptpqlohc03svd04g4bh/81311102658.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3e25b2c44---pogines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/benamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/vitizevegogikebusugebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/sipiledejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/todanozepozebevojewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropagotavubenafurebali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/67053999378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedufufudepizadiziroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694eb2e555e765c60e473532266d1f00/sinumiramizeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/paligek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e31d8d002721c2b2f3da6a7e050ebd7/97057001600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/juzikuwutolaziwirudaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/gajufuwoxazipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d5a98a597---58750176910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/49601137400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3a6368af7---70274955983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92adca0a66759ae100673dea411b3018/vilitomivazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f6db33bd3df49b2b13b23cf3a81029/disasazajibobetosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b06c815e57---65673210696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d667dabd04b---47631358524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/nobefaluxetoxanidevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210728123704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac6eb8fcf3---luwupinalaninekoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12324914371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=electronic+monitoring+pretrial+releasePDF 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_off0000eaf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF6 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 18332d2575ce74db135bb48454ee58db1d2b5aa9cc9f3d1915534356cd01ef15
font_01_sfnt_off0001037a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037A 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 991b958b6a7d3d195be56176f9a08a5efa6026c6f8788dde7492854b7069d6a9
font_02_sfnt_off0001312a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1