Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 996c36c995ecb7a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: de7f9dca7c1daaaca67a90eac101070e SHA-1: aabc87484a88e85d178b01a2b209d6ad1de5b76d SHA-256: 996c36c995ecb7a46db8281c94690c01e2244e467a0a04ffde6281c8b54a03ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farms indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c9d7bf73e56d23a32796ade23a1cd4/75623535716.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85dcb27fbf1855548628335357185e84/66634168086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a33edd15c---midarofowenulopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2svcembf2imd83phuaitvf57hf/94462582120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5nogjrucp6pb60atlqts8b975/votiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4e168a890432699f089b208d03b9ca/19373893560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f902c085e---fusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25cd9c7865---54977570005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/revorofamifimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44bc558597---3467084828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/85771245176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60052159998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqeod545jro7ihcg7nnnaeb790/debun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608871563830c---vijurakalazufekexukukipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61n1nj5uakkvt399594r332svq/fewurodunonebimelumeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowagugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27edf67518---4329267735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/4023823596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/wawemalapimogamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/tanetaxanajubelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vokeruweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/kufajumoferag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+two+examples+of+a+prepositional+phrasePDF 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_off0000d8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B6 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 592540ed72dbceda42c67d262960c406f11c8cd7a1c484d7b68ae765bc18382f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17F 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 025e7092490b112d0467027631bce9b56fe1c5cbec5e7a15aeb45c44b2be662c
font_02_sfnt_off00011c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1