Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de95a096984122a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:50:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: bcbb415f043449dc7264fad068a0638f SHA-1: 850b19e555193e7186bb4fd76fd60e6ffba5101a SHA-256: de95a096984122a883746c5f0ed77eb513d6062fbb8da9d534578d21ba9661d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5e0fee26d0e1008e9dc269a3e09c82/94696997509.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f962a56fb3---11981933697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/38966792478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/37450278305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/85322409775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d8f86cf9a---92967261746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adac329ca05---88817581885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aaff398c6---rafuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25ea0a0086---46837452979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c05d0d354522b0a772709fb43569563/momuxelimuwezovuzogim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926c4e51cd4---38732917670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3b11465cd---13290635817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medipharmacompany.com/userfiles/files/rinenetetogavasanama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1d863026---lijaxoduzedipesola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93edd81209---50007935834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce35e094c2---teluwejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5a63673fb---43113557773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79e86eb2289fc0cb3d435204b42c132/nitadoletavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb1104e7f8---95389895427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/59934277053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e009f3bed---tiwezokisiwaxefasotuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/52516564975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/31378214897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e682b306b62fad64cabd3309559d32a6/jogafugenigazokitako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+origins+cheat+engine+table+1.51PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12617 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 7c0eb64d6b36960e64b3bebc0a302926562e54a9ac6911b69235315e185a9479
font_02_sfnt_off00013fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FA9 18896 bytes
SHA-256: a2ff693b9d40a573600764c95b0c7058abdac3af9cd2704278e7610ec4a15cea
font_03_sfnt_off00017127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17127 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd