Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96bda754238e0574…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ed1b345c888ff10d169c4fc4f8dfe568 SHA-1: 9dac3926da7fb5f96aebece6dfb5881ff6d527d6 SHA-256: 96bda754238e05742a6f30886358493d676d222af293dc0fbd92c40833a2d6d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the attack pattern.

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 http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/49711333963.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077860d78e2d---43508441177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd5996d9c59b88450451304d5fc76a37/sibuzepixukodadixowupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/20278971865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9624af92f269d2d77a524b92203d338a/78017538522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca12d66972---rovedinelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/bizudovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/padulenilimudalejenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9a4c4687e7f55752f45417a7f3de447/23409246107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc31e8a1ed2835bdc8297581515f2c1/14812603359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/votasuferataguzoxadewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoledesgourmets.com/userfiles/file/sojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80453b3e86fc566bb212d4bb0e4880a/norukoxejizosamimena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd1.thadv.com/upload/files/kadovomabijubaliwumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1ceea027a---31292558078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judusenajikanosudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/dajawedizubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db206e0dc63e5c50089a3ac776475aea/55513524296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/81075448370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbnjjkij8e43ikmtjjl4buucu2/feloziravuwuwunesefiwakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/pururakediwekoborepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf4b804070---vekuvozivabevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a3d178c98---sosuxezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7c03d9fab---ladipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751cadaf64d---63219806494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/gabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fce841b14---solosenuwapakerofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=constant+velocity+motion+worksheet+2+answersPDF 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_off0000e719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE719 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 070c8a5428b521a441097ee3aad0595033225a52dfa589964800396b55027fac
font_01_sfnt_off000117b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B6 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd52eedb0a355ffbf9da55cd35766240983b3df8eec18e69fd6c4118317272b
font_02_sfnt_off0001313f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1