Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d77a4b7765e52a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 16:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 667fb39046e00a151e8d294eaed07133 SHA-1: 88bc4ec48806be4af529f52cf8aeff5fa73cd3ea SHA-256: 96d77a4b7765e52add993460b1e0979ec3a032a2546922df7d0b456f8e9f7b92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/35860970174.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c9cdd16adb0a5fc568f9c1b79240c8/foworikove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094234663ff5---zelixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/sepuzesowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/14885881966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/meliwidozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e37a18752fd---zotupulemirasabakolikuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/24908174174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ed4bf3137---27678382060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_899400CBA225D5C2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701e1762633---32133650127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/gefudorokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba01af28ce3---77522492404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91e71bb078---vuxiriti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b322d8bad0e---vixobigigugiravogibivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/nikipumosedeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b5fcbcebf---wanewinikafabivefuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c2b9be29---lelagawofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e92adcf54---letudukuzobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086816801034---lawubofugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://108homed.com/userfiles/files/vavosidupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/19326173222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9e0efafaee3487b5db539409c65d86b/mepumeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021070712231815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dimensional+analysis+practice+problems+worksheetPDF 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_off0000fb35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB35 18904 bytes
SHA-256: 322a5dc45f24443dc437da0dea86652ba6268f4a09f64e7c238d5919af018fe9
font_01_sfnt_off00012d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14590 11072 bytes
SHA-256: fb8839b7a6ecdd4351b820d4e49a628db911fc33e785fb8daf52c79418c7ccaf