Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d95a13623619e76e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-18 05:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 597c0a58183d8a6c6cc77bbdeac46d5b SHA-1: ab7694e015b88563f39fd32b0929ec9080677d48 SHA-256: d95a13623619e76e24ace00d1f0ca00a1cd0d8089b8871365566e6fc4d76f27d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or scam campaign, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6avrap8ll15j131rtalfkl1780/mezelusosaniwasejumul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6tpf6um9b9r7fam64q905naim/19602316700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/1458635415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a43d122237---puwarabakovuxegulezejizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4df8ca8d9f---22558736421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/25395888681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cec94c85c---gapofubavopokolagevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521102856352219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca96a9b79b---nexepodujudisebexifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a0a43c697ad5b48ad19aeb0dcaf0755/nofabolozewafatafopaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e08d39655038f913fefbab83c0af241/tujitojevaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/19959600271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7k4pkemg0hegovft2cgc7vspp1/ruwedivezowelekugago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5d16136d5---5333028198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/67157381277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/favoxaxonuxaxegelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tractor+photo+editorPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE631 4900 bytes
SHA-256: cf8bc506d96981dc975141e197329e10d825c1501abaa280adad14e1c83e5c5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CF 11300 bytes
SHA-256: a82fd77fa30ea2ba41d7623fe4b1eabe267f1d2ec2ed8449d90a51c6c8c4a762