Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96eca134ce28ff49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 467bac669a510e0f45de90c376bc02c3 SHA-1: cdef6e931d4027b758f54f5429ebedc667ca80ef SHA-256: 96eca134ce28ff49bbd6e615069417225d133ac2a33b08ccf895f2d1ea141ea0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The primary function appears to be directing users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://fjsxsx558.com/upload/files/4085263313.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/66976670777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitmexico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewarorolimakekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613932d75b513---40468015374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/56033533461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613809aad4e42---zamajekakixatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/15945276260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sysyanginguvenlik.com/uploads/files/mivugejafali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualmotion.nl/uploads/file/vewivodeligamiwelotizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/pawujavijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wifetidepogixipularaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofonoduxukidamarefegibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cef4509311---waredeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derp74.fooden.com/UserFiles/files/relakoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/jimizirubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/bimevoxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/19772458444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55567818305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushialiso.com/uploads/files/73330337490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5igdu8u50r1s949doff8vtkqjt/89301641929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=crear+fondos+de+pantalla+para+androidPDF 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_off0000dfb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB3 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 9adef7b8320854059975d2105adb7b1a2ac7b7aedfa3d9c8ea1ffad268f0cac5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD7 19552 bytes
SHA-256: a74ddfac352d09e4daa99afa9e3d06d8278f8d3a1e9ab477d737adeefd22c2d6