Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96853399b813b4ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 05:56:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c3b3c910171430fd25102978cd8289df SHA-1: 4b317d4458d9bcce288421ee3458af2c02fb6c90 SHA-256: 96853399b813b4aed76ca61a98a00f1950a39c3effeec652898014f70c38599f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, disguised as a 'biochemistry mcq book pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures designed to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biochemistry+mcq+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fb108435e---dajonimalemikuvafenileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/58632873645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703cabea71b---12356361077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3cb25be1ad---xidukozipovotatozazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841134d749---17588306013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892ac8ded280ee256cf999323d3930ac/vibapazaniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/kanefuzulezumitubenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa719c83f7---78869703148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3c35c7798---14181145370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rcth434v46khvehc4hj732doi/supajeluvamajakipinirita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7fcdee2d759572c9bf750fc73c9318/sodisoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/84275418884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758055543d1---mukadivewukikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/tusudupoxedaregobotozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6852titfkb0peqaourl8uovhn7/welovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb8e8ce58b---45320733184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AD 5636 bytes
SHA-256: e5deedd798cd0f875fe427856d891835d17f0fa44a3b8a19340094f2c4487527
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB6 10820 bytes
SHA-256: a7432eee587597b5a931eb64fbfbf0a4aac8f42af992de0e5896c88cc901594e