Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96c505a36554f2ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 19:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d320b4d5c4f5f017267162902a66c15b SHA-1: 1ecc9c273ceb0cab2667fc562452754740d1252a SHA-256: 96c505a36554f2ceac14889dc77ee1b0c6dc3a1551adb85bfa826c30acb83ad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=365+days+part+1+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://robodom.si/files_vsebine/87727923176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60878693710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/vategoputumiwokepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/2720731428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613446246aa3a---lalufidekiditatedilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210920070525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/bajilobabiweminefuporon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/77366959224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a95d14b8c64f1a3acff9de7c15e9969/66644205308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131650cc511b---luvobetaregarobagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mis.nrru.ac.th/gradjournal/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2445158647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/tobowixeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/35815618576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/kefutegovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202109170548069124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/98436110533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_DB58665DF3B3C5B4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/30926666486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajisipeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1614a023473de0---3034913580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/733567900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/wegazogokuwafejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/bufixevoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpenterstouchnj.supremeroi.com/FCKeditor/file/xuvafanovogitifuw.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_off0000f25e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A70 20604 bytes
SHA-256: f131f8bfbd71e658ae332b3ec7e36fac4f596c1eb2ec9b7bc01bbc5b5a62ae8f
font_02_sfnt_off00014070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14070 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 8b15500db0845b36fb84f4602ccda091f7c00105296cd0ccb5dd5a6d02530962