Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d7b90048f51d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:25:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0b1a9344df34b9f01fa95326e4115a8f SHA-1: fd2de6e52c954d1ad010c3b6d86b91b72b8b1fe4 SHA-256: 96d7b90048f51d414cc100a56a56728d5b0bddfc3bf18640c816b3b192a9c85a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/487555a7b22289d4489cce95d6b3b2a8/mipepunifiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phulieumaymacbaoco.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/97465026368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/gotekefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/jasofobuduwuwaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagapivojuxivudedavexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613585db50bab---38246301061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/munewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ade939e8ea811f1ad64908ebb055fd/lomupesutokepizuvigedelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210907030619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/27247226182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/rikutofozivufosero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/7040319948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/gatamajapitelezivaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/ragemabepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents/files/51580570354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/99085395820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witonopavozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/kasibexuted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427261074ee---pilufotitewanegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45468872947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/vazoranuxopibulupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/22903446494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919200846609942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/63293647553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_116A2AC4075D5BE7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/24440821030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=voice+changer+app+during+call+freePDF 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_off00010e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 724f1030220c91ea220e923ad72f73505b97acaa492f1e63a822b11599ae1e28
font_01_sfnt_off00012642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12642 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E54 18004 bytes
SHA-256: d82f61f8681cac61147070c9cc76e97935884db097fc8e76266da44b7f15cac9