Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96679c9e2a1907c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 165fc89233426faea925bf7baa275d87 SHA-1: 4065254b34218ce2a9ce0566cfd3426e9119c5e0 SHA-256: 96679c9e2a1907c32489313e99fb0ffa454979ad7096c4ea72cfacfe53efd601
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing lures or malware. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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=a+balanced+introduction+to+computer+science+3rd+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://webatnet.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokegasezaludepunaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d81279f2c---12438513333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/vopowagiladado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/23532376398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88389148629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents/files/27066837847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/22068559008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinabomi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mutebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.comadmin/file/mutudamarakisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinaltd.ru/images/file/fifakogodigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/91538530170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb4e5b9f53---75744671769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62d7a2df9f---31428302787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadephoanhao.vn/upload/ckupload/files/91351023090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dfe2f20c8e---56419420897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a9b3ca7f3---11863783231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/15197301067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a639a60d6a5---32533215359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/kupazapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stlqf0ngcchdln8qma9b7mug24/xulinazapovatogibozogole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg9det5tksaoh4923dri8h1m01/73110712528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98389689040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d05ec196f5655862344418d6c02319f/pimiwuminidarofibozebenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8eddc1732---panimejusopulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/99205988591.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_off0000bc75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD487 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 76c4e82b7e77bb3f0c40861e59ed8aae4b2fa9af9ed8cdfb9f42b224b0c0d33c
font_02_sfnt_off000102f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F9 11176 bytes
SHA-256: e97f3eeb7d32dc5a1aec7140aa9053681629e447d724ddd8a2890df84691c436

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