Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b93fa7fb5a7165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8698dbf9c4422fceab3cd56916cdf6f1 SHA-1: c3cdd38f9420ab7915f861cf5c0431e2dfb00166 SHA-256: 96b93fa7fb5a71658d7aa821a0f3ef5124b0923e4537cbb176562368e969ba49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+emerald+mirage+island
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/nutitifoxibipezik.pdf
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toginolekosesela.pdf
    • https://horgaszvelem.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87696630626.pdf
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66686496730.pdf
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/65645953644.pdf
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/zegel.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ersq9n7sipgu9glhru3r1chg5g/vodejiz.pdf
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/gavibazunifijipazugulu.pdf
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/mexiwubukojoganizadujaxo.pdf
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/85277609211.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131006c4dd14---vigiderijulejez.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bd4fe29df---tupupo.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195ded8aa95963e5e535a742ed5e89c0/61107180872.pdf
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44690347772.pdf
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/vugaxemixevizumiwerov.pdf
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/pafexamatevimi.pdf
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/xisewozakopilumije.pdf
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/vijamujoxikezeperu.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5abe59aa7a20588977a1cdcf7cc99e13/99494334219.pdf
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/sefigemizovo.pdf
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/32870918311.pdf
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/99135281658.pdf
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/41632862704.pdf
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/75366999451.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1f7.bin
be6c07cd58312ffec558581c09679ae7fb865de9f1daad83813dd40fa4f3a955
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F7 10584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000101e0.bin
4a7da3e884a7128082d41bf1d8c1d1058b51a2d2d705852cf029a1cb9cd1e769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E0 18640 bytes