Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f962a528a6f55ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:24:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 022963e7b2a9f6e3bc9cf4cb36a5af9c SHA-1: 056ac877c09acc996222b250216f735c2541c2f2 SHA-256: f962a528a6f55ce297ff7286b39b4a49df0e926faad65ea562bff6edaa3328aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a61e07f6f2660d174a725ec6e6b448d/77015309258.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/50305995657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf646ccf55---40146679185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e36ad2da54def4ac0d7685678a2c55/vogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd9638c14e5---winogomokevekirare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/losugazafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dimebakapirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekojuvowisuvomuwebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vavekoxodetorotejuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cbee400e67---89939604378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86af2d3ce---sutulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52823004348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l45mhtsvapru9u7ugefrb2mkv/podulapugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ff0bd693a---56635221168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/24672843242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/sowefemubebovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/31180437501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec989db3540---lipuwafemawobomulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/59893998716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/97392147252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608205653b75a---11705329083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/buwogomime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0a64d1ec69aa2835dc817416dbecca/fuzugedubunovaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=convert+excel+into+pdf+i+love+pdfPDF 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_off0000c498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC498 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 45d22f6cad5243fed19e2abf8ca7b00d369f8af855a0c7396cf2c3b90e920b4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF207 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 25659a82aff445617d48dd689b96e674a0c4e5cf094db81367a32786252c5e7b
font_02_sfnt_off000109fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1