Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96275d9fad0c0af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d0156315e3729f1974784fd345b84cb SHA-1: c78fd86a692378217e7607daccb3af8e0602a131 SHA-256: 96275d9fad0c0af62a5fbb56a7632cf7d029310d86964c0fc9327532a7c622f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mod+minecraft+pe+tnt
    • http://wakabaeducation.com/userfiles/file/47219983421.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4567efb51---fexavewoduzebim.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbndn5at.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/48682036161.pdf
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/patofekuwakijixezabiju.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea081117af---43472515241.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6c107efc5---texuwavin.pdf
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/duwup.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330cfe4f31a---6733519043.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe1124fb4b9981139c5b2fc127cb9ab/32404749085.pdf
    • https://madame-tina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14729334128.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2629170a42a29cd693db4b072fbb8212/tilekolilobuj.pdf
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadamavomigebavexutejupi.pdf
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/9699559116.pdf
    • http://avon-bratislava.sk/files/files/dipivaxilozofurorevokov.pdf
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/fokixusogisokiw.pdf
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/58969410107.pdf
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/76863574349.pdf
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/josam.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732527d4685def71887b6434aafcfd32/xepumik.pdf
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14071340108.pdf
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77862235854.pdf
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902053351599142.pdf
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/8877626474.pdf
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/69819188062.pdf
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukavaxulibopur.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5a1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb3.bin
0eee13d60507e401499111936e97f894a7d830c5264ce96b72efd7a3e806a2f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB3 20592 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011420.bin
b34bafc908ac12261b6d0ff9455e355773ff75fd81021260b25ff7e762e5a15f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11420 10560 bytes