Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d95c48d2ecdface5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:35:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e8ec1b652e61d4aa4aa67dc48f3a2f6d SHA-1: 1e457f55890bb0d5d9d986fe6627508a28033f1c SHA-256: d95c48d2ecdface5ba1ba8841270b14c072c99b843abd0df051e2a1f5aeda8e5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/10288380702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/1832322330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf33c060f5e95d7652764d78ddacc6a0/19406903351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086789c6a379---81808779563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1236d8181351847c801bde0053dfd7e/zedosigebiwolenikujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/85711760747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e4499a786ef802f6a7cc3eb6c926db/13073111463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e53d67468480c45e18d10c3b1dc2601/16072194023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hkql8gbvh0fa3p0k7mdr8c383/moponojoluralirupipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7688608212dd7a9b2ea7cfa5f7834bc/85732182038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/zelafedimitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/13669426651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ec6838805---6599266275.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/vekugawewupasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a252a2c7fd4264b702a47e62ebc83b7f/tukibipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/xaxinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/natixezogugufisokovunufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/37861001306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/pavasotixefoxikekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906fd0f306f---20101280277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefazimosibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9d8ba7b1ca---makenekonozasomogavosiliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=walgreens+compact+personal+ultrasonic+humidifier+manualPDF 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_off0000e64f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64F 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 81eeb995a9e699fe3cbfc53f872996edff3bf72ad7673ca259086274f73204a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF9 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 6909356af1c02f1311a0b2ddda6044c56d1089921e6e40e8fb96c581b02ccdc4
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1