Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96175956550cb23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 19:31:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9a0762f04f130dcbdc03b855a3deb8c4 SHA-1: ac9c210b2f2dcfb8497902d50a6e4af3a9d11b02 SHA-256: 96175956550cb23e1215dd03522eb43cabaacba4f1475da07d279829ef1a2a0b
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. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, such as http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25fa58772619e5f0bd90e5c2d9440e65/16318128877.pdf, are likely used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9666

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://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01524386502d9704ac65e92df2e11266/vabafejebanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607787c4ee32e---53557860853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/likepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25fa58772619e5f0bd90e5c2d9440e65/16318128877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79845138462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c152bc7e9ae16e71c9eba92c6a24bd47/5510361206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d681892bac---81088869095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fc6400181---nilawezituvuwowitofepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulagovuwixeneparowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e08ebc69f---gujitogusarutawerurikirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7584888f5---67857194006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/najakasedisamiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/49696997154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10871708974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608129f846ae2---doseregekowezogutazuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/33460961303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/tusitibezugapenuriwele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e715cda0cd---teguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074047edec86---fejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085050a27424---8791060416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/62930891346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/32312427390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://earthtalismanjewelry.com/clients/b/b2/b27d4d76c51cd35ccef873a204118430/File/1602071906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2e756583ad659933639ff6300c324c/35077051707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/30545672951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/jifufokuxozasexirisovoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+literary+chinese+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5C 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 2943844e3d1448f63cf249ef3296d7c9d2788f2e818916ec5fcc927f88110859
font_01_sfnt_off000146a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EB9 24052 bytes
SHA-256: bf5118d54ab55bea6179308d801d6bd023043fb31c7d21f1de66b2e2eddc8d21
font_03_sfnt_off000195f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195F1 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 1d320133f9f93f29e6373cd3307b3f47af5c5d52d8dfce1f3b5175526e8e52de