Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96890ccb6a3b0be5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-10-05 00:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bcea1e891888f0f950a5295d60ea7080 SHA-1: 5d9ea4d2e9f759bba371ce143182b3c99ad20f57 SHA-256: 96890ccb6a3b0be5655a4df76f939ee22b2e672a2e2ac11be06c1d550a7c3303
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or link farms, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/10590995017.pdf
    • http://wmasgroup.com/userfiles/file/33207623264.pdf
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/3853705786.pdf
    • https://wlweb.co/sites/default/userfiles/file/melukulo.pdf
    • http://thcsnguyenvanhuyen.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88705293419.pdf
    • http://thienthaopc.com/upload/FCK/file/56238907462.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145ba522abf3---21123768003.pdf
    • http://daehnfeldt.com/userfiles/file/27168438244.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393fd559975---66149181069.pdf
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinarubegorijilibux.pdf
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/mufexefozodoxix.pdf
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/5964941081.pdf
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/bulekenopinurujalifuniz.pdf
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/vufuxugusad.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1rfi2rnqh2q684ro68kuukhsn/fuxeki.pdf
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/27763991679.pdf
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/tamufitopopeko.pdf
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/zunozaxetosobap.pdf
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/tiwajixesegexegukutake.pdf
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/62005171797.pdf
    • https://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/75755550975.pdf
    • http://hadt.vn/upload/files/xegafobigifonutagujiw.pdf
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/julowiwamaw.pdf
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/87118548592.pdf
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/rokuwakunuzoginevor.pdf
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/zekow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=information+technology+practical+book+class+10+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_off0000d9fa.bin
de90a01bc4505f4d946f29f76fc394d8fdfffb8189ac8d4a5729f54730eac4c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FA 19536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c29.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C29 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012440.bin
53eb7ec2264ca1f011af6f3cd6bbc4352cfabb73fc04d4f6fd34b23ba7b53bc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12440 11540 bytes