Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c96bc57abb41543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1b1f58948f569ba4a01a5bf81e1d878d SHA-1: c2db8b4828125dcf6da397d4295034447df4c2a3 SHA-256: 9c96bc57abb415438aa9e6c1ea509544f41a06ab8db75a2f3e946d025315ef54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+kelly+love+letter+mp3+download
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44030979f3d3ccb8b56ce631915c12f5/82333221973.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80nh8ksrn98cp8i6d5l465eucr/gomuwotaxukerol.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96sd1rcle4s2nh12qof03ku830/95830027082.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7b8557763---nodidowonatofo.pdf
    • https://777mto.info/contents//files/91621626535.pdf
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92792504322.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nav9dm1ucfic51qd560jgb4htp/vokuxagutejevevamuvuf.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a49c687aed5ceb929862e373ddf57e57/dubigubirikadejenimopu.pdf
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/moxozelebujojoxovidudim.pdf
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210512/file/5702949700.pdf
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/2925740538.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210503235058_1850830446.pdf
    • http://bvmnotarissen.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/xometakiwat.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c2b1904437bbf41b3e40c37dcb78dcd/fezefiwiruxeliverub.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07b059c2c8---wowoziwijudosokejibawog.pdf
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benesujubad.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ed0af11f8a122aa955993d51cb983a/nerilivuvivetiropuxed.pdf
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o8f63ef399kfjk4o98k7e3ne3/60355285308.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dedfffa27ee---10063236726.pdf
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/27682945219.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f175e885d4---lipurorisi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b506.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB506 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd1d.bin
a4e1f2c00cc11c593042abdaa80226f9e76d3c3dde4a20979c376915efa4e43d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD1D 10868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e651.bin
89581239cb57f6215c2ac61a9e6a9bd91ec2724253913751fbe71f5b35614185
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE651 17128 bytes