Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b5df2648345e8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e5bf1d4c3c317763e1242f76170899ec SHA-1: 71290c3614d0f4664154dffbefe82e20f39610f1 SHA-256: 96b5df2648345e8d518b58d5f74c0fe7b380a5e1b4b3400c6e636ce01f503c0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially compromised or malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this, indicating a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nexus+5x+pixel+experience PDF link annotation
    • https://lockerova.eu/admin/upload/documents/zavogiwewomezafojutadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161556462636b6---latali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucsokszekszard.hu/images/news/file/dafinolawatigamebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/kodudovarobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/25449454266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/41810414985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/40703170735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/48821084700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/jezovolifuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155bbe3d4a8d---85295464359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210923_1C19621AC159846E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/dimegadowijekeganujuxival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/38512510599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614823994389f---63405727922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/rivedujibamuruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopediedelft.eu/files/dumiworajupuretex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/48703221232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48398800287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_FB5170864DA20C76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109100457013955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxusepudejapilunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ecfb811b9d---15681359192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/vozun.pdfIn 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://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_off0000be18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE18 20076 bytes
SHA-256: 6ab14e5adda7593294560fac67a8cab040d4fe42721bb0242f8181574c37d02d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF299 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB0 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 58bd79ac65dc8f5447c997b648ce8c9cce405f33787a4110a95aca7e17d0b110