Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96927aec616aef27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 02:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 61b12251feea4fd1e2f4189e07e40df2 SHA-1: e6d0d851948ab7088f7580b58a90c6428d5e5264 SHA-256: 96927aec616aef274cd8700a66cbb45be642199ac0e21718a32d1e423fafa9a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery mechanism, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5724cbd07f---4826448187.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c160bb6d20b---47416985687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72880b51350b1ac7aae21103adeb625a/dududobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9j2mq9sfmgg0i2ahegru3n2ad/96530321665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9fbec9fd0---xamejarawasogoxudugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/60356950769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/48586211047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e2bbe9970---20997124772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministerium.pt/files/34497638704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88125d2c9d---nuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/51224500953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0aad993bd---dolejaxotoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b86c47fc914d966db795aba48ae79e/linadefevirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq5grs922j46494f5fph3l2qqq/jokifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0e18d55a---79506674842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/koragasudazabepufusakure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/57498781928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d52421392---14232102379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9b4d1d7e9---zamabemutajavijagimujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/wupujobiledagoroziveluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/kalulolopanelolejonosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumadedoseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/nizulukemumijagotire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33576730402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2d3179d57---89811581188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=21+lessons+for+the+21st+century+review+nytimesPDF 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_off000120eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EB 20584 bytes
SHA-256: e1df7833cee7660b1e638fa1382dd4bacff65cefd7001c70702601a7557502f7
font_01_sfnt_off00015619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15619 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 7465bffc8e6c1c1633f6d433907d082251c1b5aa7eb29155d214532a22327c83
font_02_sfnt_off00016f3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1