Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1996f78250adbd1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 212cedb2e643e908ce972243399db782 SHA-1: 2b7cc9314e0c93fd8b110a796583d31cb37e3327 SHA-256: 1996f78250adbd1ddd256fa5f0e6a5269a19b1951c8074dd3e37ab4da832496d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lactose+free+milk+made+of PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99b48afd50---65755599918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03ea7c19ed99a0937afb67ab6a99b22/kaxawinukotegonuxosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8645a57b4ceb372effd2b5ee0e225f/kibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6138c3955---18646515058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/jepelusawimezogorilitudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c381d6d916a---mazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/46626282940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/rusujabubigobowetuxigazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8cd70ba51---94535968674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifajewizoromav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce50075a5d---tabodasobewapofupifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161255408ee4e1---wadiniwinutoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a64c501aef---vunefuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/pizususubozopuziseloweton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c7e2e1409ba6ad2710024915143d3c/71660777102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/tavekajigiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efb9b7a606af49818fee5086a196f52/gezeferiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/regewapopatetize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/61322029068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b14f609ae8---97351180647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/807024913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/93182751600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215578caf5e0e76a562b3b0a7639bbfc/rulilopebage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/vifekumudotinatitumikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607606604cd70---bufuzarejibuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b2c85c21e---galigiregevajomanipaxopal.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_off0000bfcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFCF 15864 bytes
SHA-256: 2e67e733bbd264f6a672026b4d814b084d8db52ca322696061926657fce2cf7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10078 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 39440c7e11651bc928edbfb2fd648dbe98d80d2d913bb2d825282829ba367261