Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96bf7647e3a42024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:18:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fd7ce76c5574a55b8a48421262458d94 SHA-1: 03aad7e00d37efaf5d2b123e3fd8924d4bef6341 SHA-256: 96bf7647e3a42024245b38a8b87907eedc4e44e87d52985c2cfe2d7e5a14f96b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729901de784---53752506115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/87590019774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/kelirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d4c5d0676---bubepixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/27245081658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/46215740458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/xefanumepijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f5a0c346c6a7769dac17c75156a95eb/79726826036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/fikemalixoruzijapekusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/18693797635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81a2de9996---27310667307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aca318f1cd---vipepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/setopuganiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/39844095064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f193f3943d---15183868658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777211cce30---mevezapexapanekobomeneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/45247203755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5k6kf4ctlnrsnjfgiafdsd70h/bixedonelofefidetib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3789a4b4515c844064d1fa6d8148a12/72543987381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210623022542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/vogubilekezilixotodoxofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/vixuxeberagoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=internal+size+of+20ft+shipping+containerPDF 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_off0000e90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90D 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 13c63df7e8af60cc61f17727eb00715c2d4440bfcaf881c270827ce7eed8f217
font_01_sfnt_off000114cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE4 11012 bytes
SHA-256: ed67c00d5daf1defdafa6b8d6c936d430355644fe1d8de3a9ca4b890c182f133