Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96700ae9314ece2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 81fe7c45f1fa673473d707da8bf54649 SHA-1: 0bfa149eca7477bc1a412696a17952873967287f SHA-256: 96700ae9314ece2ba16c685af6665a447d3608d7ed7e120d2a98910862b48898
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially phishing domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ugc+syllabus+for+commerce
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsung7b57ajsp6k7cbpcgjgdbr/17392327513.pdf
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/66464041538.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3381cd812---23151553240.pdf
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/tosilawamuzanaba.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47ef8e8430---boletanonuzesimufadoma.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871cc9299bb---nipogu.pdf
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210521053102.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075320555022---todukanaxivak.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a0c62a20a---lugudelevekisiv.pdf
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/daxotoraxuxako.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/wigozam.pdf
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/426826500.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff46a4b7674760193ef1e1deabcddc9/lunufevorodobikolux.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608145ad53942---28167215311.pdf
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/gavununuwa.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3792c95df7fcce405541c5f03dc70d8/86928574561.pdf
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210627164428_m2as2f.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id5nrlovqcg09bkfo44vl9ifk0/rubepuboguse.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46b27cfb729a85841720ea56b9f6695/58825042701.pdf
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eeb288f40853ffb3e3be07404849bd2/teluridesikakelirenini.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiovvvr1lak51cmgod00r55rg6/7787527175.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb01c6b6f6---89040093446.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce97f76dc6---13460801713.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f71154536---xijolibit.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_off0000e5b1.bin
4bd3b6ef4c20f383b0718b164b662ff0f6288271faf97989a32e584ea2adb3c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B1 16772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011167.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11167 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001297e.bin
8fd52359bff5498a8c8e683dcb88cb6c730b4b9fb43c372547296024ebb87c71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297E 10748 bytes