Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96796fc3ecb7cfa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 14:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 724d7155b000ff54fdd68467099f4ca6 SHA-1: 005607b70cdad1b7828c47dbb06747ee527f7019 SHA-256: 96796fc3ecb7cfa95757d3e3e82450ae0b69584b8f579b2364358c8e1161c449
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59218823821.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd81d14c749---30378900435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe40bduni5vj73416ub21gdul7/letisaxezijoveximipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1987eb34a---40492324339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbtk4peenp8vrl4tovia0k5vmk/vaguvidifatojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdol5phhptpnba1b3olujrroi7/litujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/fowisukavugamululepuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/xuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9326a84f48---98693909729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34e822f1aa---1052385132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ad54a3059---luwupunegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae81a63bf39---sulukonafareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba2a0c5af7---49405396917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/91328815491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869fe823c90---gezewilowikoruxamubemoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fde7768ee2---50628180317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbdb529ddc0---pukexaxerara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3845f1d27f282ee9b682aac9814603/luruxekumurekenu.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=d+link+2650u+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_off00011b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9E 5172 bytes
SHA-256: dd1a4a498ddd644d845deb71e9cece3fb1748adf2066c2174357788594cb5a94
font_01_sfnt_off00012d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2E 15232 bytes
SHA-256: d7028ee881db5e2a640958b65f902d102066341c1b3753ce1bad8e5ef838bba3