Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96840a7bbd7e793d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 87bfb3e4ad64e08fdfe0d4e52beeb8f6 SHA-1: 1420bbc5258ab80d4a3621a08436b6673ceef43c SHA-256: 96840a7bbd7e793df67f85f61a8765246453969fbbb9425c9a34a0e6cd4bef4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/28423796712.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce575ad49cb---tuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/91589343864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52ca93ce9144e963994021732fc83ef/53035106145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/neguwugowapubemisekuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784b9139a2b---51767892074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b64e255b0---28753715312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/35132066533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/47691283048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5qsvebcvlproa6bs1hgdbhc66/47512109643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/lusevomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070894e1a71e---jusofakawubidigenubotigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/51195085760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/51862120244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0otb8ft3d6i8fp4fntp66ufj2d/32442103333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610510e10039c---64080486102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c79c58d1dbfb4de5a0569bac9f6252d/94077635408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a173a3849f2---43086988773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163a3a85d2de56c257febaf880736b25/31607657991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb18bed96c---vukileluxixidalopimadekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedical-yub.com/uploads/file/juwaxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0ce1f59cfd---50538293835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/79111392297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/33421015201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=transdermal+patches+review+article+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C2 19320 bytes
SHA-256: b91d3b1b2c4f5437090f60d989bb617618ee4b7d2fc90c78e0a92b008a448e2d
font_01_sfnt_off000119b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B7 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 4aefcc98d5d31339f17d75328d84df70c9569570a8b46e2a595617c5ed8851c9
font_02_sfnt_off000132af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1