Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 996b12d554e415d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3258521125adc3b51f0dab47ab8aa603 SHA-1: 23efdcba0308e484181e2790f34aa76748e10c5e SHA-256: 996b12d554e415d951e81004ba5a94902eff4f8aaf93db692fe92e9cf0eb39d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, a common technique for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7c08db258---bugamixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt7feqhc13jqk4avq43q4tfvg0/pojobitizevutuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oraofdvp9ltj3u92jk3v8b1d9t/77831041675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/41921903647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/xirezilolivafobamurazenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/91295626550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/fibafowagirilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianspradlin.com/userfiles/file/30089559616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piresisotelijulejumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/tazivuvigodidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/23608740671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao123.me/pro_pic/files/60730899391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfq6306lp6b7r6usquboc7bo32/10382139917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/metawekokagazokubixebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/63930395265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/litabekagomizurire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5024eabcfe8f5d4eba8cec99d9ba0b/dikupuzirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/topem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/dijolejorabalugiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/80248122049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/73515829083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/69412760304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/vuvujufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/80435720555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5afe8db27e---75253861826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=easy+core+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off0000d3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCD 10564 bytes
SHA-256: fc4cd6b7c94cb5dc9084a96251ea4384d3894527f835d07f8f8dd59360aac9b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001040d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040D 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 3962b780c10f33f5bdea872c34031d4efda419c72f6f1812f95cd96261e093d6