Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c95c074ede313d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 92874adcb96c3cdce7a6f13fd2228d20 SHA-1: ef634e8412820da623a790a612315541759d08fe SHA-256: c95c074ede313d7a49fdfa75a736c530e8276b6bd07c81b928dbb676e9d04d58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains exploit code. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm pattern strongly points towards a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=height+and+age+chart+boy PDF link annotation
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/82941678636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c5cba6043d6413f8d1dfcd958e5951/30059156785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/35855519205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec26d43d60d61e09a5caf36af4690b07/7949669219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/83862270093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/retivana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76e776ba57---55138047493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/94052486961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/tuwutebofikeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab62b5e6d82---37540815905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4140ec275a6790047ae334bb95c2eb/ruselari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/455b6b49ce09cf1a38d2bf553cd569ea/58575226182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkdef4bkdufvdjaj6qrtkbunfq/42095698745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04438864b77a1e0c828b62cdf350a3b0/57440044778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/99332711490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9moobcshk9s6jdgvon7b3b4042/59556559069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc45a7dd5d73fce815dc97384abdf7b8/guxisajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/rarupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/lupujujigigilujopugefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9879605391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e5638acb3---rutavibusinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856d5554d0f---70870589124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ec64fbee---69930755317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE485 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC97 17040 bytes
SHA-256: d2b52975924f464085cd7139ee94ed165bcaabdf5749ffa965ab887d6cf91fbc
font_02_sfnt_off00012920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12920 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 6016be37737d4eb93c4b5d4e5f6d5273d970d32f26df4fa8a15dd3dc9b921ddc