Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b95a81ffbf131658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b1232b37b6a7a7e422200a6955fdc470 SHA-1: 07beb8edb871909f8f5c5fa6e7152a29c3fff260 SHA-256: b95a81ffbf131658e2e634545b94afe4c0ea1e4bf12f2a73454b59c1d3193df1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of an IP address literal in one of the URIs further indicates a potentially malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/banig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0iths8qb0h7qhag402hr1pvtmu/69099137833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/77482255947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/muxeriwikepuxotizuniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d7f280dd1---61435634758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/51571502993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7c4189901---82380984553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d6d751754---88733553771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3224e5a1e105ce247ba536cebb39f9aa/72652348168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ec0705d76---50136602864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/zalumakosaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/juwolebukikudenerojimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb05ed92a8---gumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46b596b587ccc480ccb0d61402e76ec/zijimiwakozejiroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vguioonbdlb5k7rpur7ti4l04/49793882410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/54132266260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/zimejuvewakufeguzuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/75673123695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aa3457528---16623278693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/4131053728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b6d451891---daxadejipas.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/guzebadudumanuwevudofuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sample+quality+manualPDF 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_off0000bfdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F1 15468 bytes
SHA-256: 483555410ce164e4882b16b8db775642846fa25f22e15b0c45843f445f9071b4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5D 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 12d23d35f09c45e5a3a642c47ba0747664e4a91cbaead4506ebe1ca8834652c0