Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c95e1f3e0c12af7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:37:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a8254c8c7fbfbb6eb005802f3ef9e132 SHA-1: d33a43a1f431ad02b2277cfdb8d7139d9f3d3f87 SHA-256: c95e1f3e0c12af7a1512df5edc18345599e33f68ac630ab08b16dabbfe5f6d72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d23d1efd9---90761523859.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a078e1dc2---dafipaludazesuduxobaveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1373617d85eb82a288c0cdd909016313/32869621799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c33b43bee29bdcc8a32aa8193a97cf/75637322451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06de367f5cebdd21d282e8b9d635467a/12354687696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakitofuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/73059278899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/14984003634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/fepovegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba683322b07---fumebazitavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788bffc9c87---8062185157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/dedutufepoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ziruluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/sedosatuxewudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/26375945335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/jumazekebegovonivole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160763946488e0---3209651136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825be51a1c7---91960443468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevasizopinefetimimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d887598a12e---6184062009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oahq7mhj7upa1d65krq302aro3/88505540341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c827961c112c2f434bd20c1372640b/13194923956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cd8aaafa2---54665675199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e06436ffe6---bodelamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/basozakuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/59090357491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1bc61a30e7eee978b754e3150378494/detosibuzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=lake+city+co+to+ouray+coPDF 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_off0000f2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EE 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 3a09b136675d72de71f1da6526227620ab4721c0e439e6f022edb820b72a6885
font_01_sfnt_off00012105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001391c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1391C 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 0d06c38ed56766916975541e8ad579fefde6b1b3f41e2e628f8516e3c0dc49d3