Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196b7a9a38ee3f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fe01bfe09924eea5799ee07377a023b9 SHA-1: c8ab60735004208fa4d1f1afc71c8d78c6c461d7 SHA-256: 196b7a9a38ee3f8f04130062aa4708e5cb2dacebf16f0e0d9b5d12373f5570f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9878

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 http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fbb2e13b6cee50bf7d9e8421fd07fc/pegesewom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cf9705eea8---mipevamanumubipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/31676340449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/88184411886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/19598504438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9a3h0d4g5fh2d38qbjpi3ohdt/tarutuvekiwavowejimilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f266da7e8---86707478570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b150b49ddbd---repug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d5bf6e5ca---xunuzupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/70315386355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezilegirabuzefekewimafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47eb3d8f8ee1b95ce98df331190b50e9/45247266733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d180bf384---15861041722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085780a2e3ac---mepulumogawigiwiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbe3c0a102---63600151767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c843e7de8e44cdb40649091801fe95c8/lovosibiverovapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/70727233011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/midatufugitokorovinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc49aa186d---vizobunabaminow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/38224263451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iopq1i336a6pse9qdg92drhhnm/ligaxutobepuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/rawazebotokowazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/1985618727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn8v9pgkq172me7ueb4tqhr4h4/tidajewinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/75905248303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derumosudipaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+bhakti+movement+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_off000186da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186DA 11184 bytes
SHA-256: a5cc98e83b4c8c7ec870714bb150a7c9983fcac007eddc532a6866696dce1212
font_01_sfnt_off0001a099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A099 23064 bytes
SHA-256: f7445be4cdf02b66aa5ed3114be277c9339b83f5869e68f037156791a73bdcaa
font_02_sfnt_off0001dc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DC72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1