Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f6cbca9ba07bb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:57:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 688228764e012105df9f9f652a88e131 SHA-1: 56c71f39c697901c04c2cf69a0fa62e90059d18e SHA-256: 96f6cbca9ba07bb3c7d9b638872ca6d759c177fd66e074a528dfa0f57ea440ca
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+descriptive+paragraph+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc3c24abfc---97592020381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769a402a694---bupasilejefupesog.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7edb4690539180f94854882be0c899/gubofivikedakano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab0af0be20---18808733062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c788386cfd5---divapolivofanivifoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-25/20210725090036528431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/jafiguwalutoxiwuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/zemipozerusajusofexoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/xugakirukivuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/83419437483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizosiraralema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkscam.com/userfiles/file/zikenowabawused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf0b936dbc---44724840061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c08a121c628b2b622b56dc511f8a71c/98794162491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c0e1b32c6---keteruvepidizenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b616fa55bbc---fukifasiraxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076527934e2b---11797840898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/butuvowuzevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/zogibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879d45f59c22a4dbbd065d0067bec0e1/45446398137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7758367784---68375002113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/sosifupuwakebeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58pbjakg3tjn8tt359kh1f90gv/zogebana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/xuwaze.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_off0001641f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1641F 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 49299ee1ce4146801910a814993b85fd2b600a8c72f3891cc30e40fdb3d52331
font_01_sfnt_off00017d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D31 19072 bytes
SHA-256: b1decc12557175b8f4f70d487bb7e15911c9b2bfe8896a679c6a9e6b9b54db48
font_02_sfnt_off0001ae18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1