Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d836f5689a5c8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:36:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 42c1fa4c6e4cbc1eb69ab8a29c68d2fd SHA-1: a049d279fcbbb011a421afcfba12e99aa65b2a7f SHA-256: 96d836f5689a5c8b98d0fdb64bfcf5a61658ebdd6da44a7ee72668dabc73143d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further payloads or leading users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084501eb66c9---noxebunewobanodinanuma.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45890a9ab5---54328093395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b783264a3---95538954186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/kepunawilurijawuxilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86420d502c03df757e923f676c35ce06/50276899040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d15796336---69384891398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ddbca23eb39ee74f86806ddfc721637/4050177652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f9c670e78---92852963232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/lixokapudugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985c29fa08af0cd22ca05d843fec3ad1/xubogulovukogorofexafonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/sapuwubofujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/lizabesefukije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1af2bc0802b014ff0fc70b30f466e6f/giretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385617fc728fe71659e7d58cbf0f8200/90172117762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j74epufr2gc9i8033v46hgpgg2/42725113026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetejalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/kobazovimesefelowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd7ca30d960---govedazazabamanirife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7b9c9cfe6---beparobuvaxuvexudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba2cab56f1---79475863436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e671aaa07c---bezumowalabuwapubewebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1313e6eea3a09f6dd44cbe07a2f93f96/57108203554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/82668444304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071af6db3e6ac09ddd130d7c28c962d0/xepewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/95961801390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+informal+reportPDF 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_off0000edbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D2 10648 bytes
SHA-256: f25301592b7d92402533a9dcf17175619944af59565232ce020320c8fc467cf8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2B 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 4db4ecf552cc8120fce7beb10f0a381dc428308e818793aae550394d5c9d9af6