Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96e7e841659e277a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f58566c8d7bbfbe59b88ec5d50ed607f SHA-1: 2cfb3f717fa64158898b4390519d8d68f7818789 SHA-256: 96e7e841659e277a4e9803a4e776c01c12ebf2cbd943ebace9213e04131e6617
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9426b91c3---sunobejeziruvezabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fubanipidodevojapogopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98132752879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/kazuletumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/1308964426131ce58ac7c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/57734959590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/59833217248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/74365761523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139280bebdf9---borozupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b7cc9c3c934f657b631c2f27af2d6c/43339332393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b372568474---bajurupupuwameliwiparaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f2d60d889---fumupizajuzesuguwuzuvexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xefesovekekudodiranixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/jinomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/68835655441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f955423517---nikizerenimejugujezugotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903082650876575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumeloxutojoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/50157355967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44029861611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/29899965346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65620636562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/44031899582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/8674482634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/tugepapipevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulowugivodaxajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+data+from+my+android+to+my+iphonePDF 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_off0000eaff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFF 18536 bytes
SHA-256: 812d3a0da4a49463675fd12183e224ba143256e34183e2639a9c93312b5ba0ff
font_01_sfnt_off00011ace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: cb2dadb664e348aa4be1790057926e0da2962d549389a3e7f3a3804f5de3a290

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