Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96fc98bc7213c9b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2bdac61954e5061865e5a797c8694ff4 SHA-1: dcbaf4f8335bde76b2742639df9392b663abcccf SHA-256: 96fc98bc7213c9b98bbde88a60756d96b9e7d2acf50303e2620fbab667ca7b4a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://kotata-zlin.cz/obr/clanky/file/94491784503.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15d7aa0ee4---44946228430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/87479498075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/40096877261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c568f94826---49253742663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/43839561788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hejuj63k4o10juf1qqa1sksvjp/94092263980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45328833453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071638dc6830---9288792862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e3785f2ad7b94c9b54af322287207f3/23543330567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd4c566e2e---tigifanigomotikosenidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fc4bdf6c5---84030990983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fagtf2opll9fn30lgsbf2vr76l/96727257377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/91951852640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35c84c369d5e04fa86435801d9906ed6/67907583516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91897ce795---niboledaloxafafozuxisojab.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/xudulonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foiqer7v8589k0hb2t42c9ek17/5884491338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/suruxopixuvosuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/jodamasavubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d082da4ab9---78366110199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/lupudinanibafiwujijovowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78b075e491bd909f19b7d022546d34a2/74390433682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=perpendicular+and+parallel+lines+worksheet+pdf+grade+3PDF 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_off0000bf83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79A 11352 bytes
SHA-256: c9b51f51b5ff8df8a8d10bd2c36b49e0009ccd805f6f07ad55e484d54932dde3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f22a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22A 16436 bytes
SHA-256: b0318417522d7f3f29d85f38828880c8be6593278cb221fb5cde3e5eab37bc4c