Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a96efb390c6c6cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 23eef4ca8c46ddd4de721769225a5675 SHA-1: c320f2e80a976bb7a843aed4e7cf668b18e46bb7 SHA-256: a96efb390c6c6cb7f37267bace59b1b1b28c855b20da2b48dba672ce03c0499e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synecology+book+pdf
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/32512297921.pdf
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/bunovobajexop.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077306205b10---46420907682.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b731c5e902f---39142816180.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ash7b6j3ej45gr1do75mm24p/44933340061.pdf
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24c8256177fb7da7e8961459cadf25f/rowidej.pdf
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukomu.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0gj29sa976b3al02i4b260pt3/tuzuzus.pdf
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/dopinepegatunerimojubun.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/14710788027.pdf
    • https://quaint-house.com/47297079904.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7846c4415---69186185241.pdf
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/84691647687.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dee1c572bb---jidolilera.pdf
    • https://linker.tw/files/kazewewuxoteg.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7a6fbb303---47478549852.pdf
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/79206768425.pdf
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/6085850143.pdf
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/feximizomifesazogidumirim.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/dolipilamek.pdf
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e11ceffabda168ab4ce164562af199a/10065253869.pdf
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/9658888936.pdf
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/46084197510.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd69834b92ae07456ddd5c7871e7b61/tatadamowosoketujaw.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2293ea55f33e318b9a15bc12361adfc3/90206795358.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_off0000de79.bin
71d6b010475a4f0b2d6d85f48770bd1c9817669ace33515c00b7dc655df36f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE79 17480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123ec.bin
a4fbfbef524f443be265b719d31573bfd3829ae8fe6e642f262ed99e5434bc42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EC 10596 bytes