Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ac7018023923e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 02:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0c9d10fd5bd32d233d1c40d8b94867ac SHA-1: 089e0aa23b9c270ab9c8fcdef2ed98f428f25ff2 SHA-256: 96ac7018023923e0173b7a958c1643c0c8376c083c284e105606f89d782432e8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. These links are likely designed to lure users into downloading additional malicious content or to obscure the true origin of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • PRC/3D content in PDF medium CVE related PDF_PRC_3D
    PDF contains PRC 3D content. PRC/U3D parsers have been a recurring Adobe Reader attack surface; treat as a related parser-exploit indicator rather than a specific CVE match.
  • 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://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f77fbf715165965dc03d31fd67e063/43781487140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd89b785634a0793be41f7ed3b2e50e7/52155987386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/097bf772bc92ecfb4bdfd8e06d7aa4d6/kafabevomumukajifojaviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e49b0c67a0---37283132485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfad02d633989997461dc917d90574b8/14112433806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve44375374200g70m04meoseho/15952951294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s1on085ds41oponka3ctg0367/92107575815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/21528947761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/suvipepelagatodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee0c14cb38---49896077873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0daf6395fab7e396a957a409d1da53cb/jowutilibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/sulefinakotorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25305b775971ac5d73ca8cff28d7530f/88940942855.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+word+arabic+supportPDF 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_off0000c569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC569 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 920b9f2e0187e28b17b7bb07fec1888de263be2394c168bfd1d664ac4360e6ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B7 10284 bytes
SHA-256: d2b034c6c5017d19751f8a62dbcb140c865455b2cd882cba4b8a2c726c448983