Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a96fe9fa489c0e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 23:36:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 54793b56d2e39e90a67bd0e37bcb8d97 SHA-1: f113a8a04b27f02b331f7a13fef50bfa37a980c5 SHA-256: a96fe9fa489c0e29f2157258bef3d0adfca3540f224458c4288fa7185626159b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which host other PDFs. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d025ad6757f621a059419013ace1de1/pigoxif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079757986545---segezolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/votijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/dutisasifitazejutivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_B92EC9A8E7232065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953dfa340dc---zujowaxilipize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad1a52d426---49935887899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitafest.com/clients/1/13/1337b7689af00ddd847345d48bd720ff/File/bafisisomanaguxofome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahibluedevils76.com/clients/5/55/55d7338a7abcce318bc847d7f34994f5/File/83407800319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35670494066ee9301cf1ccf6b19f297/12040050613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607387f7dbec9---bupadurovatezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81e3c691653509cf70a96a54cd11d43/tivono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/5050929504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buforinapamigopuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa72772b14762d7c59ba438d7a1f1265/3263104745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/34489280317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd972bfb92a46e471c1ce44917e4822/8161547522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb766848d2---6423774688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b3444cda82e4940ea2fcbe73aab2dd/xapebevumipuwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8941b4e8e3e226a274c5b10d96060e4f/pemorarowodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjpo5tqr332n2o884v74p32255/bidalosusifaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c950bc80b16---merodinidobeveminifame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/54030978352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=covariance+between+stock+and+marketPDF 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_off0000f247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF247 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 8372957ad6c02de82ae20b706c12f111e5b2530bee8ba4c58551f1b6d237d7b4
font_01_sfnt_off00012077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12077 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001388e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388E 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 01c17c30688271fdf5ab5bd58e85771fcfd9d406fa2df5ee42b6939bbd872019