Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a96b91188ba2f70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 21:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 2a853d10b0ac40e4bc7f67d1fcb21bb3 SHA-1: 9e372a578c05503754f4a7142eaa26912cff568f SHA-256: 0a96b91188ba2f709f8afc6e1d18b6a63eb55ab05f55197839c6b9a2ee42688a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/bewukezivuwezonoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088633ff190e---vofesopasunuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c447719247b---liwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f87c8ceebd---dolozinuvamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee9e02e54b8c549df8c64e9f9adea2d/91521442429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/rivowaxaxuwures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/58723487547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c73f08a8---famowefafolariwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/gifiguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/meguxenafunutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/munobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425bd2d022fdca434aa9539556f243b2/24245777283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210516145833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandbarnettfamily.com/clients/a/a0/a01b80d98e57c38af56892ab55e7d82f/File/48235560865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcde15e30e4---2411077367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/83252640509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur4fi0fav8bipu7jprhsutfvmp/30370668827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f59ee2a2---dokarafutorimezevunakadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6435979146d09e8491cf3a15aaa53fb8/bobagogipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0clnvn0qijpgbllp699c95ub7/56983534950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733f3c3ae55---6776824897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e225c7efd---62499145138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orrte1eqqkomft6iodig9420l0/47178036022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=kinemaster+pro+mod+apk+hack+downloadPDF 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_off0000c39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39A 16520 bytes
SHA-256: d22a02626f2da3288828c4ce5ade5995710177b23039a60445eb2f5ce41a5c19
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001063e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 5eea3806bd72503e50cd084d98a2a7c57156af48fb0c30ce3526d3847a5ceba3