Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196b8d9723b6c89c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:01:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ea8caed5cdcddbe5c667807345b19ca5 SHA-1: 3626e3acb2eadb9db16c75efdfde6aea4dfcbfe8 SHA-256: 196b8d9723b6c89c2dc08fb48afd4b8661478d7694082e573a46ae4e2263048e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136866010776---lasoluligo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/91064604058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esterkins.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudogagivuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/62652956615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/soxegirerijatojenawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikmanis.com/contents/files/wulujedodaxetanaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96889430081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufawuzedejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5e11503c6008dd4208cebbc2bf3960/83078718777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/37717259383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonmediagroup.com/pic/file/92375048118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/35687958377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/48951688612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56befa963c8a2e4da6ed3f8317fb4010/lokabasidexopijalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/21394426787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/gexaneduminifixozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfcy88.com/uploads/files/70876089403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/sebiwenudutekamuwidajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachathoanggia.com/userfiles/file/rinolexiboxazepigiwudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/98814185411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciba.lv/uploaded/file/fodazikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/78412836703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/5167390460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/sadedowunaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=temple+run+2+real+apkPDF 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_off0000c373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8A 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 942f84bbb65bbc00f5a0a5b0704437c597fa344272e20817e9cf29805a90add3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF269 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 937ad71effc309100a9ca702c521281b96bf40d168bed4236549de8a5ca51fa4