Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96fd153bc8f3cae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:38:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 96e4c6b33abdc9e669bec9988d8455d8 SHA-1: 3b035de1bc6ea321d742c92c79f31c1d36dfefeb SHA-256: 96fd153bc8f3cae10e1cfd0e15779cd1b285f0837af61c820a09af1f3b414368
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter related to payment card details further indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=valid+american+express+card+number PDF link annotation
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/69019727874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/padavize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345518eac48---88223742995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/97284119788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/31777208074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/11301152870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/wavukakizafogudulowimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/fazokakaladenalulekafoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/lawewexikatofiwobusugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/63238569245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqcf1m0fpbuqbe4v7ai59p5dkb/barosodapitiluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robustbrakes.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/30006568375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/64089350010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/39311446293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/mujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/nomapigotofikalibapefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefigedupoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93658992752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/redunevijubokuvazetefiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/88998918828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/76233222061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b0385bdb4---gobifewenuropugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/81800399661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614457a0e79ab---77288761320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/26947614702.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_off0000d8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A1 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 895ee9e8e0eecda65f1f238a411424476d879b617688f30ca873f85679441e61
font_01_sfnt_off00010844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10844 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001205b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205B 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 1a990f67e71c785488f8f2131d2baea83028549e7e7ad063c63f549d59279b08