Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b95a3d8d35c00c0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 16:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9912f2cd03ff123e00988d8ea244fb96 SHA-1: 0968c7548289e533aebcbbe37afdc521ec1c3675 SHA-256: b95a3d8d35c00c0e40189973741512439290457280d97477c9d538b514a3aa70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests the PDF is designed to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to a second-stage download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e14f59c7e9---sidaxugozifipikolefofi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namkhoabacninh.com/images/files/54832077815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentai.cc/data/file/20210906_085144_143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312f4fe4a10---nidukogagojifakunowewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/noretobepumokaforumekepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/32712570027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciabergua.com/userfiles/files/16420419809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f21dd55e79---244214029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/82582388670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/nawobopesusobopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/mikimosowigetagapigumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613477627aba8---27942660562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502t5h0le1p6cj6gqsujroe8gp/9478990024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/gomivojalidiwasopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3cb4c195a---peruvavililokaruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radis-rrl.ru/userfiles/image/tolefaguvunuretakijuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/fadufunitale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4209908cd---wopifijazobuxetezurena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e76fa3a73d---19454184066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/41244988673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/31743844145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugekaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oace6lle7688vpo2dls8k1cq8e/nifatugajubunarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/kexaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cmm+launcher+pro+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000e070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE070 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF887 10728 bytes
SHA-256: e67537dc2d514c4a4bd74791708269d8383471e1025395ad548ab2b7ede0bb94
font_02_sfnt_off000110fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FB 18628 bytes
SHA-256: c409d760b2fd96336da70ae312525e76e45b5ff373800d67e7efcec7fbcf9eed

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