Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d2a2f725dd6d61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ddccf4dbc1ee1892981ab03059dd5913 SHA-1: afdade7845369aa9313db9db50a27d1f79eeaa9c SHA-256: 96d2a2f725dd6d6129895c60c53ff1dfc116375f6a04c545e40ae3f8a04b5cb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and potentially compromised content management systems. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs suggests the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=route+nl+app+android PDF link annotation
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/75291005648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/76860478535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/29571419626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/28601356649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/9473904326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewivetebukidudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/37085246762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozigovavilewewinopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditumerafususudakofine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c7dfff2e64940d1ea9e33bb083621c3/88326124500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biholka.cz/uploades/userfiles/file/46737179737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab980ce3992569d8569f11439859b9b5/63304054234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekuvakaduzemetija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba8aeb1407---71700796414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///63282904974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samolibidomuvovavafesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/19491199946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/wakogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarozijaluxojefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jpan44lihme5dcd0o6skocic5/80302210346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/ralowigatimati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109101823472803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/14036462542.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_off0000b45e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45E 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 74b8740396c22a14294fc581baa7b2b31352cba2150cdc84706a6abbc6d00c9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD9 16348 bytes
SHA-256: b1b1720ec00717cba8bebeda21a8ae2f2f68e6fbcc5aab16c244af5814c3e577
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1