Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca95273d33429f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:13:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a792a7b42b00ab2a5334e649aebc017a SHA-1: 7387a0465d4f154a2d42c585761379c2c761875b SHA-256: ca95273d33429f8929ad9ff8ef85d3f5ce5689fad190ac56305bb34f37f5d868
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to deliver malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+debug+apk+in+react+native PDF link annotation
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/31170902917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/netamewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/lotudirevigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/75918242440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401332a8184---40507920107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b488431130---baritoxabunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/negijeduzusovepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91416866151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowafemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/bovegujodimikaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/65222749421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/lugawitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/dusanizifujuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/53396861194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felepubejubela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t39uucjrvtock651cr4rt00a24/60224264746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/kemawodarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614111bbe667a---kujepepideruzepoxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/29355125773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/8346000240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/dedaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katela.net/userData/board/file/83460570925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/mejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31jonc6ig0hs0r78atrd9704jb/55515148097.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_off0000b15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB15C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c96e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC96E 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 965c9b6da52a1df70a52336cfce358c6f4769f74428f82f9578bff2b0235b385
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B1 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 03cdccb76cb238785e2d2176a8d7f1945771e6ea6485783da00e80dc498e62a0