Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f10655a64ad5d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 10:24:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 609b8885201b5a7dfe3edbdf8e34b666 SHA-1: 0897ebef53b8347196e22f39b81b1ce905378b81 SHA-256: 96f10655a64ad5d3c8b2e87e839dfbb26afccd5eef05289f20e5368ddb1dffdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to malicious sites, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700a7eba5b2---7075693474.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210531021813_440820902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/wovilojegikexuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8eqg0ndnue83np0r2ng1m9o12/daropasatekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9d047d2f0---kalaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/rulalamifusujujavugijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8717a0s39jj6mrte8vkc8mvisp/15464045909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc82ea98bd---16107816458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/sojaradeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7add7b151---zapabekowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17259125399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/ratametof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fa9374fe7---47033965126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08082404790cfc7ad2b2f66a963a116a/68015482825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h6g11huv5cmjud6ouldiakmer/77373963775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14975mi2embc1n9kja5r13ug52/88152764775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b2d24ea0086810179b28cb772b6533/pajozasojajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0354001194---guzuxawokafoganudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkvolley.pl/upload/files/43286294991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/nujutuvobalufegixagolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837b1c69d46---peduwaxezadujisejidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/67483098927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/soloporanojuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a95aeaae71d402b09a6f01f03396d05/wesafadokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jm0uj2rkps2cnq1eq9bd602uf/wojesavevulipofoweliluven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=weakness+interview+answerPDF 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_off0000f5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EB 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 40dd66bb039ad1fbbb3a77fc6d3772a5d8f1c2d51c2674a4d8db44ca4eaa9ed1
font_01_sfnt_off0001252d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252D 10172 bytes
SHA-256: f6438269f5611ccafa1a103bfdeab4b9c2af547194e4619194f81e0d605b9d1a
font_02_sfnt_off00013c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1