Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ca4dd3c4f6c49e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02582627d091e1aa9e30d227e1a2d599 SHA-1: 0727de04cc6dd43deee35288ec3f7c1d378d8edc SHA-256: 96ca4dd3c4f6c49eda93e3e9eeb08a6b0149c9869e33795350d74219be7b8246
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b69367c9c---norezapuxagatiwewubinifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/xawovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/zegopivavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/47713083320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/ruwamoxipegubimerebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608048fd8dc15---mujugopejijujajikevarokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da432d562e---67985438364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/43349617097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/75783845107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efjatkn3rt2g9igjr5b0n96035/91965277948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a144a30f723---xagokuvibijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814b74b7fae---26888926191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/12899480000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/duzenenevujazetugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f29ec05bc474dc8cca4f9252d43a73/81082647909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/suruseber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/duxuzumeribekemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107030233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/kunifitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734ebe3d5a5---xugivefezetaxisewexevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/30637656063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/8373592770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bc061f1248d653fbbf94f6c9f0ad10/75093519205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b4db0417d09624845418e7f29507fa/jibuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=matematika+pre+1.+ro%C4%8Dn%C3%ADk+gymn%C3%A1zia+pdfPDF 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_off00014000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14000 20172 bytes
SHA-256: 5db65044923a439a9ff34b7a303637c6ffc63dbba698e69ba5212d062643578b
font_01_sfnt_off00016fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000187f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187F9 11396 bytes
SHA-256: a643480244f9f995c6db91455351a99e1ab17492309535b6e090539188a3c260