Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b5a6715abc46d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c28b323a86b7ebf42deb0b1720a88d41 SHA-1: 1f12ad6d291ac82d79f3af8396f428a781210993 SHA-256: 96b5a6715abc46d5ab5e8fce4ef5db5845f63c03dab2cdacaaf931e7543184b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on WordPress installations using the Formcraft plugin, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF's structure and the presence of these links indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e94c87a95af---datomewaragavewa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9c740d8d9---88787183983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dad4771783e---94415406100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50f219feaea222f62e6be1f98a90ce6/85951111824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/nupawawitowidejejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24476835321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a90bd8e4d493e4805301894ff4ba4a3/98947748153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/nomazowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75898707876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8a8b135fdcd78a83fa282e17c37508e/fisovegadagupokorubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents//files/ribakorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820c0beb98---56733569552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4158802dd44cc15e7c70da46092bd561/93175804887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melinterior.ru/userfiles/files/runotapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/52461084241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210831_175F8DFC45762CC3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/lufulodofanaxudusuwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d9714a132a4db10a9695187938a70b/nazusedapurawekuborivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b06ac5b214---40442022187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4559aef563---jibidixokaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/27877358942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8jq86613an0fd5q5id4tdrhj3/josatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/fuzonasovukimuvewimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4eda253e7---senovifalomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/vomigewuwezutopodatipimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a48403a8b480af937fb2e5bc99c4d19/noxilarafagonasimija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e5dfdd2d3---65183083350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=basic+jiu+jitsu+techniques+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_off0000e459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE459 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6B 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 560fdf44e72266ba833422cdc07098518186614764873d2f31f3abc0403ff0f9
font_02_sfnt_off00012b95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B95 10880 bytes
SHA-256: ee6dfeefac9c62e831936b8dcc37c1791520e1c5f561dc3f6aacc557900dc24a