Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96c111503f566eb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f1a1c960e77685386cafcd4da79e3116 SHA-1: 3bb0fb2bd904a621330607a968b6a9b0435132cf SHA-256: 96c111503f566eb42d02eb3e68fb83c6eb150e69d0802ec9d4cf5e290ee5dc0d
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 websites or link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic firings suggest the PDF is designed as a link farm, potentially to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=largest+to+smallest+countries PDF link annotation
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/2021913_23027_426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/5174486396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choragwica.pl/userfiles/file/puselaluvuxubavuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehayemek.net/upload/ckfinder/files/sunufixomisapigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/53846295214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/99369488744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/timopukubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2c0e916ffdf4701ea316741f3e409a/32272178103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/mewejelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///winoroxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/91869598331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d8d324aec---56567636444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405e5648f69---jagekemenatosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/livatipidufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/3985824437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613256d1b5895---24577228293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/55876979063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theonejsc.com/userfiles/file/bewovawonaxidipasowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiquangsico.com/img_duhoc/files/remozomifowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/legasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/88535331750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/87604841534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/24303054647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613796e08b6c1---bewivukurakoli.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_off00011848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11848 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001305a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305A 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 8f3dcc43822898fcc13e5fc7f27e12f366f7fa4a91ff4a82f24a96f787ca0cdc
font_02_sfnt_off00016120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16120 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 7ac7f6c46d1d38f34eabfa37dfb6275cd30c07d31616dd8287b9c1a5898bb64d