Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c95769b5cafb39d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:45:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c2865007eee1ce7c37fadff2a7f37f4f SHA-1: 8f2b17ee04106cb982c4cff00c6d778a931bee55 SHA-256: c95769b5cafb39d1a50a30c447fdf92729ff873f6669260bb3cb69ae98524b54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing campaign, likely using a spearphishing attachment as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/91159181442.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca18db15bc66a77728157cb45b67a5d/lugububumuxifodibiwew.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4016665932cd1e3ca3eed1207fd487b6/gilerizozeliweravujilugix.pdf
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/texagowuduvado.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e791da015be1d4890183c70cb5bb79ee/31548306548.pdf
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/xupamane.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d074e5d309---ninejafowumogelujazubu.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v062mjqbu40kn265kj9srhtic4/12911184468.pdf
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/67684539062.pdf
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/goserozez.pdf
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4273d681ada03e2443755bc7ecb292/95153074645.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0a40cea73bbee956a2624f1f41f99d/96328475533.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0edf8846cb---16095698434.pdf
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4c63e7a4e91ef0093f4154c0b61134/21132857618.pdf
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/vurejurebepiwogokipuna.pdf
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/zunabix.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c86ff10beb---37948195513.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861e4eafd30---92993891572.pdf
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/wavatidas.pdf
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl4t4jeadusfjssdv6oo5lcof4/25827229971.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66906c078e107bf42325695ce89e56da/gupetezosoxegipukufef.pdf
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/mejifibozetisajajopebuja.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c839c31b63623fb9b706fd318637e66a/waronatakuzifegunolafeje.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q07nh5gfcfh6ghpb7nek3buba/73055640418.pdf
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/farorunawevilobevujijet.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=finance+intern+interview+questions+and+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ba7.bin
aa821a3da4a716954fca90f4dcc473d1404a030ac9ab9a5c2a2e3943b4418e6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA7 17636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013a1c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015233.bin
b64a198ab58e729f746616c55637684e898d66484128c0df65b810d77e569ca0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15233 10692 bytes