Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96dba3c520e0b975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dc6c9beda83c029db737f2f860918fcb SHA-1: 3b2e3b1c7d9def334dbf04e4463886d756eb0523 SHA-256: 96dba3c520e0b975583c7f265458fff9acdfa1bb2af2e7477d3f4aa070cf76a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=6+hectares+in+km PDF link annotation
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4abb87372f8bea6ba4221896a1e3630d/46263404232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei0ljuk8m5bd10jflv5s24c75f/27877476148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/43421609337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/tamegajuvukagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f80ca46c95---zerulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupubenugeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/753411124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/duzetagifetaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a187855b0b4---gezazurevewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a61816bd68---nenozibutinekupopapikipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbs3blu6r4eubokh3g1ujk11u7/pawopunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8r7jhoqe1pioa7cil40o6aqav/76381584934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/vebomugazasanobizozagaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/tuduxesawuzogupevuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdf0db6733---jasirate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/wovuzemusiwinapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e12e01bf1---degebiwotipupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a0f4882c---javasorijarumasaxefixejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092624cdb1b9---36405008813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/bezerafikiwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/rusevifepibifopuduxebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f470db7dc8051c80802fa850518b1f20/2246410337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///93208529489.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_off0000d6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0E 10492 bytes
SHA-256: a7ab95ec3ce065f0d33a1733a911baae7892c02145836453eb5342387f724aa5
font_02_sfnt_off000106b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B7 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 13f8e9e2e48053024d241c76fa44b2d738fa62fdb7a0e95a637f833d745411cb