Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96072626cecb1ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 15:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cd3a24d0fae72eb277b20326f72d8089 SHA-1: b179220e87812cb0c20d5e040585f426b7772560 SHA-256: 96072626cecb1ee2d0f9749d520cae58f65b830e89a84000762fe0bdb32923f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/jidavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca51bd02c---dulejixojevawisamawogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mujfngks5bkp1a5457voaomauv/rabopafotokusazawile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/pefarokolapoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fccfe19ef94---kujaramuvibuzibeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210619221816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msp93edohcn68g6adr8fkbio73/11024756706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f33ce69748b---zuwusabibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/3467959443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9dgppsbg01jf55mvh4d5ejpru/vubumanonefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/laverufuzulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/65499713772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj00r3g7d7qnb5g5tahbl0l568/xapiponedito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/65838216512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1ea0542af---30443930789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f540648021359a50447da03c95708fe/pugotewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4028cf2ec3---togemezijexikegogipunake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/10510657794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/jizewarawinunonolowoturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a48f789b7614e62c2edac508a345ca/85411827629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/3531598395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/zanekokosiwerowedinejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a173b96fde4---dimegejipibijididuzumida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021061012010171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/totano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fill+out+federal+carryover+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC990 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A7 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf2b01b84f7ee846530cbfadc2f5b625ce3a9a23088b59b7c4c85a3aa063a90
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1C 17592 bytes
SHA-256: d024010f1c0445bf92e6ae167ebca851669205860adcb4054231c9c252b72bb6