Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f255ebb659afff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 14:25:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0a2bac2e8a305c868eef851c29f3140f SHA-1: f5c028c6f56873cc1dd47e974a0536db7d7bfcf6 SHA-256: 96f255ebb659afff34e7c4072525839826f4e02c1e579dbaa207e2830e00442e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with many URLs containing 'utm_term' parameters suggesting SEO manipulation. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or SEO poisoning lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/vuxevefegotisopasok.pdf
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/30198456420.pdf
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912042553.pdf
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuduwituparixuvoxad.pdf
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/zigovafolusag.pdf
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/23751374505.pdf
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/tibadixa.pdf
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/59498118710.pdf
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamazatu.pdf
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/jebifixolosepikuzedazorax.pdf
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/88944354267.pdf
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59898398555.pdf
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/duvunosi.pdf
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/madefapuseguxagakakura.pdf
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jopitexatekibodekexede.pdf
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8df4823c7160721bc5dbe1e079db0b/50232104768.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b36d206b0d---novovilofikozulodu.pdf
    • http://edeins.com/userfiles/file/divipepivaxemuxevoxuxamu.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c9ea14116e208def6364eca4f5d3ca1/76268187462.pdf
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/2806963775.pdf
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/vujiwuvixagenuvodazixuru.pdf
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/34748571106.pdf
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/sajorozexajakakisilow.pdf
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/komojanuxadikadajufegez.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pei+irukka+bayamen+2021
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd14.bin
09aa95f9fb2abd313c792c0f9b4c89fb1bef8231dd39456249925ead3d82b4a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD14 18980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eedc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000106f3.bin
26eb1b1d69798f578e14a81e9c5b0b64823c430d352ddae24fb072d0f18b374f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F3 10580 bytes