Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ea78241981db85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:27:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 750a4d2184feabfad7032c73583bed7d SHA-1: 2b77341bb1608e0f5ababd2bbd6b39918397b29e SHA-256: 96ea78241981db85b293d2f592d422f2449ec5d40fc069cd04858e9db8ca6973
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=app+para+eliminar+archivos+basura+android PDF link annotation
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/23932942080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdd7c11111---77284571550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/litntodhglfmtk8rt5kkg9ubur/23268427037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614111cd13a95---97733702827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeruzarusinifamafosinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8232a0952321dba7fb0ae1d905ff41e3/69963304097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/57401951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/78035377954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-09-18-08-29-28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/49933402869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331c0090f6a---55683297371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/9315263289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/21656616604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobosugufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31591311445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210907_051324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49964982667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/86324351451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/jojikapoburixodovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirimumaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sname.org.tw/sname/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhahanghienminh68.com/upload/files/92849027617.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_off0000dc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC34 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 13e8b59b3758c95c6365a54a9d07cdcbcf0da56b2d99c51fd6c132c5f78fc477
font_01_sfnt_off00010b26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B26 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 7d7a9e806e2c3973a6b7189a19a676dcb0df200fe76d1241326a41af47bdcce9
font_02_sfnt_off00012427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12427 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1