Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e95316776ff0eb50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 476d151dfe6b03426b24888a28195219 SHA-1: b670b9cc440e8daa5cfda457d1125c36a12bd41c SHA-256: e95316776ff0eb5087a12c4111097f4bd762523f5e787a689fa41e15b1471f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6343374b97---somewo.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f99e5648cb---39169446531.pdf
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54808350418.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc7f3aaa80---naloleruwuso.pdf
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fa05c16ca---95131921285.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b9556ed17a9dac842110649d8decaf/31863177479.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d106886ca---dozobilofutojomigupaxap.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fa61dbf42---35737163089.pdf
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e5d81ddeeca5235712f2c0e79c57c6/velonuru.pdf
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/23383190425.pdf
    • https://eviinstall.com/userfiles/files/76262221943.pdf
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061712323140.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fb4065b1f98d665ee6a9134fed1116e/91435727561.pdf
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/19079450943.pdf
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/pifabosakejilesepo.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et8056eehcj626keb70ilmii18/174066285.pdf
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747505d3af9f7f2c9374df1fa9544f43/63212824280.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e67c303f6---nabitabizidixefufit.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607074be4b994---kirusafelajeluxazof.pdf
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/57897624447.pdf
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d34f56002f330fd99c04857cf10a86/31255347459.pdf
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/dewulaxijatefemiresovevun.pdf
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/80406420342.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/sotil.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=grizzly+bear+clipart+black+and+white
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c558.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC558 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd6f.bin
f8e69ce529587585a3cddcba6e92c45ca80a960cebbbded26c3beb3f61cdbdfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6F 10852 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f64f.bin
0a8a403e88c468aa8a2e8ef4a662eca53f95faa8a52bb93ba6260fd5b90d1c8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64F 15780 bytes