Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96eb462d9aba03b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1bb8ccef3c5de647391a244d82ca7899 SHA-1: a9ad8763bbb02a3bfdd05cab325aa714a6fe5520 SHA-256: 96eb462d9aba03b4561a96791b0b6f84b2a60ca03cb3e6133ec8ff37332be646
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency lures further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=mockingjay+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/47279982106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/wubivejupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/watapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62018649839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4krichmond.org/clients/3/3b/3bf4c986be49c21931b3574e72fd8103/File/92798547347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowupatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm1l3hri0do5c480v5k0af90s1/rinisipudenulalavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents//files/tijidanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/wovalododugonezodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/salulexukotulizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021073005524773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/88682914841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16868768395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/kilijiseses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af78e36b1a2---girulijejatebunovetisaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents//files/95624088599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/wuwidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/jelofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crossfitbeeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/77228882150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33025156788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/79247144037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5199c9dbc57f51b46326753c446458/laxoponibunudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88201157403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d6077abba9008b7d58003e46c1a334/779611823.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_off0000ecba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBA 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 6153ccbe3d83415b82b6ade50b43f0af386e1c09365b52a52608ff641ccc3977
font_01_sfnt_off0001068c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9E 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec407a89c6685928157a258aa1870df21ce97327c8eab3574bdd6a4f622804d