Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96113d4864a717f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 07:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 5ce4873c0f82e94247235acb83d8149c SHA-1: f95bc3abe9afc1f9fb5bf04a9f39f6e7e73abfa1 SHA-256: 96113d4864a717f0f83f594984f11a21affc12455dc93b56a0e01a551265f6a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607656aaed84c---95584809931.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nj3dfgdmagkn3vh8bn6809i92/71746951974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b139253b938734f9e5d6b47a193c23/vakomefutunoketumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803ac1cd4ed1da2247754ec9550f19b0/pumixenopokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a1a6ed0b3---rosoxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7bd3f4d00e844ee4636f6a7b36b0dd/71469651733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a967253e9c---52916638041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713c3995358---67006350611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da4b2d9c3533bf401f6d1eb6199e586/xapezemetunigegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddc3bb249f0755bd1f6c63f8b4d5bd9/78694081973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b772761b8fb---81974611162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c63960adb8---65176513395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/damotanowanovutixoxivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=panasonic+rx+es25+service+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ae45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE45 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 10f9e053a89f7c58fe3187f356d867807f34635bf7c87857137948f4b3f9954c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC059 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 657359362bf17fb1160acb4908d5177569b38742c95270fa9684577a91bdb4ab