Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f9b3cdbe2be707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 16:06:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6e2df6101ccc2bbf499e41eaf52a3afd SHA-1: a9411e39e526a5dbcc8afe0ade403bc3a53bafc6 SHA-256: 96f9b3cdbe2be70727474daab7c686eba8c101ac21e26e81e2dd103382393990
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee88372fef0193eccb30d90286591b9/73177422161.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/52732602391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/47274394898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081dd5df3250---dewimodosegufuniwivezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f6eb7d2f5---momikapujebumolawerojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210603142731_a0bcst.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4fb9104bf---41757230728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bdf978c02---pigubiloxoximamogada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/89984029941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da1a52c92d1---12377232649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4a36c2d0d---xobinipujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/xixesini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/95376190611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/fakezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/52609943087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtntoproyalshihtzus.com/clients/4/42/42f4769cb4f2467af64fea76c5682520/File/64628729171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/solitojewazajefita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/39909533181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/vigipipagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cd386bfe4---23854722247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54be5fac73372081806a1c3082bd881b/musagipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/bufadaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/1681539711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://[MasterNodeMachineName]:[PortIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sql+server+2017+developer%27s+guide+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF789 11428 bytes
SHA-256: fdcb6b04fdef579fca330cd24c7f59238aa3e4d48928c59cc6d7c4dad151098e
font_01_sfnt_off00011256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11256 17316 bytes
SHA-256: d62e1ba5a13dcacb14c95528ad335de38d83a64180985518cdfb673f358b16e0
font_02_sfnt_off00013fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1