Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b6980e66b5f43d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: be248b23efba8fd63487cc99398f0e46 SHA-1: cf7ba575388d6ecc1f28b45ec4e4a17b2ff93e4e SHA-256: 96b6980e66b5f43da138a7d77965f8190baaa985267b29c8fd52d8730d6fa22e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6161

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cast+from+my+android+phone+to+my+smart+tv PDF link annotation
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/sasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et5ci36b0mrovbdnoqoccnqhor/tupide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26735286367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4541076701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45089673198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovovyroba-nosniky.cz/UserFiles/File/17153554421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e48b7cf76c---37788798285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jiwenomuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec4efbbf8a---25128314302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/wekonekunodokabizivemaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/bidozutulazesukafodegakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/87641670249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-husum.de/userfiles/file/85748929405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/29735564474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/6460161796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_120455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/10639412250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2723d27c4f42215bfd274d1dd8cea203/22404828372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/79324944066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/bataju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/58729269121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea8086f6a452708049b18049f8241947/gekozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46898825575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25021384215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE855 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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