Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 596c880891f09243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-16 07:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4f2c176c9f3c3dcf9356ac0ed23b6cab SHA-1: f2afac075c41cce5f45827a97a28fd6fc299e2f8 SHA-256: 596c880891f09243adf3b774e092123e1af94d044b4da5b23d4615497220dad3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/47944069968.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/45288439388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/numafiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/dowalupaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b417249014---5465802185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/7175823879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/9346869531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e61607ac2c---supawewewepamutizejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d26882d766---4578192399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/lijemigozukegafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86d3c85197a86c1fa067abe220bf2e2/temizajokiboduxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b07ee3576ff59210a1ef39b9a4895e/87889346114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66f3e31cd5---mafiwuwobifasipufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/73768212425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nluserfiles/file/42876066738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h00s7c6th5i87e83ri2mfqmal/62293248134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/73487662407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/55077654613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/61754504236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/taxebuloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a032d687771d4216fe4357dbf49aba28/govujanidobufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+should+be+included+in+an+exit+interviewPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23bfdc6f70d076ac1c3fe6d327fecb14/80839931029.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_off0000e409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE409 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 9abff4a3d191cef07fea78062a898e044c1f8b4b6a25e6500227bc45195c7b11
font_01_sfnt_off000111be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BE 10956 bytes
SHA-256: ca112298a552673e91e2c07e5d4dec8cfe1b37ae972b36238eafae86583cde75
font_02_sfnt_off00012b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1