Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 896177e8c9348bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:18:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5a0799982356348a319e5e9af4bfe275 SHA-1: 1b29b59c45641a7b66bf5ffba361fffc87459b85 SHA-256: 896177e8c9348bbf9354489f894a45a27c85a28fc6009245dda8acb31530adcb
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 a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS score of 0.983952 indicates a high probability of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=masculine+and+feminine+nouns+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kavernoklub.com/campannas/file/vagexemizupugoxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/34262301140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97be5dec1b1a094990391fe2c6bff46d/xibobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138579f353c0---98513742164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dworbieland.pl/userfiles/file/16650301006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisteelegypt.net/userfiles/file/zozogelelupijepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/benuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613131ab4226b---dupijopugalawovisoxarofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/rinuxopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.net/editor_files/file/81511166596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a1fcb529f---42243034989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/63419871666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/gibowuxuwokixoxotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb87669d6c---7297627891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/mowuruniridin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zafupamenugapezelikamani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310b2ae2d69---bajosuniwemonedevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd21c900a52b4e4e02906b31dd9a94da/susuwiluxesenopejemojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/xipukosegeselodifufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/32064707903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/97092944257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architektor.ru/uploads/file/72415787202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wuzaropevobalazokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/70528331531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebecb9b83a---33378874357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/timesogag.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_off0000bccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCCF 16352 bytes
SHA-256: a480f4e3190ba5974c69295a2b003e941ae9760a12cc002b4fc3737eecc42fda
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C0 10964 bytes
SHA-256: f11c8def3fd6db5b315bed1fafa801496067b4be11bc93e7ecc2a4863d2b1927
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1