Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f7c78ed59ba53b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4ac60d7f07b1bb1ca1dc057d6f09723f SHA-1: fbc0a5f769863344a1b1990b97ca3808a848ee9a SHA-256: 96f7c78ed59ba53b26bd55645bbe0cf8329104cd2bf7a98d98690c3b67036b20
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many leading to PDF files hosted on various domains, supports the attack pattern of luring users to external malicious 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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/16619232137.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93261175647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruviwerukekofovobutopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b039589ed---45757565511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/taperogisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culfordequestriancentre.org/UserFiles/file/mukolaweralip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/59119630782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hajnysport.cz/FCK_userfiles/file/wiwulekozofavamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/50542709034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/23662703140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e02637ebcadc19584c91049ce35535/69084174489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f62ac8665---vozepudaruxaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tommytest.dish1314.com/data/html_editor/files/ludajizolenogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/23522589811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/xinigadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210903075910_151175785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/8377860634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bofudazepavaxegerufiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3c629a1c8---vapebotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417cdd42d47---64367676226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/32500958124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417febaaa86---wabavonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210902001701829211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolovalitufidodudofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=rick+and+morty+movies123PDF 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_off0000bfc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFC2 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 63927dc246ab37ca0ca1ce908394e8b1fb571647c9a9cca050146c338f3d17ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA45 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 7c744c13dc3dbc27013cc67bff897a35e8bca5336e76ffb74d80a6ae01a51f51
font_02_sfnt_off00010488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10488 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1