Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c96dc7d93ad931f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 21:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2669efba1184fa7044ba4370f2be95a0 SHA-1: 868bfb17a9bd29da2717aeca09ed9b1082e66151 SHA-256: 9c96dc7d93ad931f1c8287a635ad6f983284aa6b01192b083378faee397ac027
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing and trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious payloads. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+premiere+pro+cc+2014+update+download+pc', are likely used to redirect users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+premiere+pro+cc+2014+update+download+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md4gr1c8u12qlpk2d443mm1gk4/30951251681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0ppbvfjcfrvhfkefrmaj12rvf/53265023740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/80367739058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107bf9259b4e---lipolajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/95517264649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/luvazidimibemelorofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e27e8af75c---70227835545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/zanepexajobojemefepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b2341b0ba---vawosogizabazomipapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052a2d79cb49f01837b554e2f9ac1cef/lexinadodovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f81c93890c5a40fc85e68877a7e919d/niwisamuwavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928adae82c2---51628967277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a905684a05---60439365044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/revigirivinavamaramiguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/98368925891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/kakidizitane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/xederemomemexurome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11d760d592---21856432922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/katozinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c991cb1c0189879f3bdf240f57b80351/6509185816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0af6600ac---19836557718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/54405838601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35932edbd28379609545fd1f2fc2a6c/juvaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/domonisu.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_off0000dd57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD57 17524 bytes
SHA-256: d43222e2a5797cf6e0098f3796081d17b042988967ea0f2d61d4c288463e145a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001234c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234C 11188 bytes
SHA-256: a15afd44ffac1aa47a7bfd3ac7da95acd2ce9149236ed76c38c7bfe4fe544c9c