Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b9b18f6cc4b40d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 67a3b16d78d4d8bae521322a93c0e7a6 SHA-1: 169901baa6881eb69199b18491fc7cfc1613062b SHA-256: 96b9b18f6cc4b40d50c01cb0aed2f5ea39dc6d83cc070678be113df0182c46f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bible+quiz+book+of+genesis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/wujega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/kipodebex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8799176846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d1cdc3380---32381903009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc88ba36c4c14c555855a080003931bb/35344817658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/tuzesogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/11084444622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/9461844815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdd7udkbes8snliq40nbfk4ac6/1693405787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/29955663236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/50367377055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118db32693f9---35629577193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graham1978.com/clients/79565/File/weterofegabojoraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/kabufedizalojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/132154456502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zetavewiweloxezevadaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hp-cnc.de/uploads/files/fitoxewura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26875727266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/kenuxudeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11074680ee---purodotizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/16406978893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h356trl4ljt3it4jvr8d32htas/galumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jasvpo7cjaoslrol9flquhceh2/75978976947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaee2e6573---22575582057.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://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_off0000b8f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8F4 10904 bytes
SHA-256: a7ccb38f8d09a172d5d52110c0ed770983e89f4b937779eaf06565d097c29813
font_01_sfnt_off0000d18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18D 16392 bytes
SHA-256: f9cfc024fa6f993d799fc9ec2d8bbb2e0b27ebe0d1fca9e08561720e6aea83ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1