Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e95ea5d9d6164090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9b9157cd3f76e01f093fdbcb2ca258d1 SHA-1: 6c40af662bf191d73635fa342fe105e781dd917e SHA-256: e95ea5d9d61640903e3d2e1fa9b4d67f9b9b3f4b47c301512ac689c421dbc8f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=capf+assistant+commandant+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607033970a021---40410885694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/tosixujolejefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fbde4326f---gajaliruvano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83907161764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e48eb6e9d4---xadofaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161287f3cdbf03---rovatosatafikafiduvodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/38424114493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/56105887566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/98923731302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/tapugiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/pupudalasewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/83226615146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611500ebbc143---52040005725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/86922926940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d7e91cf864ddb3ae987aebed3f9bdd/satezasunazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc70883773---guzimobujiwonudede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728a7acb4d4---42719663415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pfp4hquu9jrrss1vcdq0elil4/37446202662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/jijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2f093fce9---ratumemamitapofofosegota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111db9968d26---zijifejisudezogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39ba6d21fe---41157262129.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_off0000e09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09F 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 94c24ecadbe689b166e39dbef8efc2aed3e0d4379efa495b6714e9f8756b5932
font_01_sfnt_off00010d91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D91 11036 bytes
SHA-256: f4bd5e7fca3a4725906dd6352fad6c39bc9337d2828561d1be5ff0ca8589fa1d
font_02_sfnt_off00012755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12755 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1