Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c95d5b86f8553fd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:33:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7ec3a29356a519e87d56de222cbdd99f SHA-1: 40e1fa16a938a1cb5d79b25f917f3280cd8206a1 SHA-256: c95d5b86f8553fd1dcab969b8606da92e8581253f07376e00fbe9c768c561d19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content through a deceptive link structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/fowotalepemakitol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/35823278296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/21215794153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8abb1a89e---88047804465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c28f5571eb7f582b97300b6c9a291bee/wegokizipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/18168376415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/makob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/vuzulodabunanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienarbeit3plus.ch/userfiles/files/lujajakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/vulopoluzusosuvemobido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/078ee01399ae935002581e8d801f8e88/71090508666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210627/file/16247890075738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/tijutupazudojoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c249255ebad---31742325523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/96023654188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/mexirenabowekatebudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/wovuwuwakagoxufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/nufakodupeliran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/81443715349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593e89acc2---kekixuwire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/rudenejozotunebukobozunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5qr195oosdikcgp9ucio1hhh7/gunupojewuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/88357973221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+witch+the+subversionPDF 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_off0000e9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FC 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 512aa2b176f02c220ad9c2fa058e461484e12c5ecea51249e2632b961e36a5f6
font_01_sfnt_off000101de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F0 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 12f75b8a3159c560d28b91d8c24001e184fcb36215a7e76fcf5ee90b468b12a9