Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96089667607ab19d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 05:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3415ab00859da12fddc0071af6b3fed7 SHA-1: 30e187a6776fc0586d70f665bc61a89e4d46dc39 SHA-256: 96089667607ab19de9d5b72877866f9a7fe70f634d9d32b3207aafcb3d8a1847
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=company+policies+and+procedures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849dee67a81---jezafonaxowovezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b229ad89da3a5b29469fbb85b80c16/rupulapolumakutube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761fec9741c---86801001076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/likiwetebamaguzabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c873cf7cd78---17852995010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32f1042950---genebasejufuzubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/monomudepadaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d1939e48---rurabukapotejegafada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68be597590---vurevugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c906c02ce2---24861015195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/dajibaveneratokuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/valakubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/19270985344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e4fd22e00---68494819964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesimulogajusodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4719bec7b4---43073233832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505d098aa8642318a9ca875ac9e0e738/80533199977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/30166946589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67875e4e0da8090ecf9c2968ae3e999b/pawivisovasajunifane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077968ea13e1---26161971220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91c3b99a0f561e8ac18863a7baeffb4/37041610994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/65666138607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/44711400191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/59221765550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vidilanopebirumifibofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/86176186864.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_off0000c017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC017 10928 bytes
SHA-256: f79cb0e43081a48e4d7c0941b2b0739c7630d59a175bafcd1f77406ac0d81253
font_01_sfnt_off0000d95b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95B 14300 bytes
SHA-256: e4c65582e8313c9e45ddac7f5730bd8a85639e43501fa8b3a6deb1cb9b7c308a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1