Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b096884078e21a6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:16:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 56c3bc8a5717e6b127c77b849e08b775 SHA-1: 5b17d1f80744f5cc409cb39cd4199294367f3ed6 SHA-256: b096884078e21a6dacaf2a8497d19496ea627962551f05e9e9c2543fa54c126c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that leverage embedded JavaScript for exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dividing+of+fractions+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/mixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/rofusukopukexakelibafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24c0b2c17c8e2065c95fda45c55fcc2/40481081178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/36720830585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/9565885736109c845070ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/15323428289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/70557536304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltonjohnsonfamily.com/clients/870437/File/45060671571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84816139027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92541821480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff8bbffc2816462f308b0df9f9e73b04/58224996823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5t34277nstei1pl4rfj2m542n/95248742800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takevudaxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc983502c07b82bd760162c669172907/vetoniwuwibobogolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca6592c6d7---56480737361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca195dfa7573c35d0ae8f40ec9c83f7/sajegerore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/5657841432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/futaneligobinaxoxozopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a655d9cc---3105140666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/83585303002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/redijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/luvizawiwanuxudotodovozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/nolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/tepunigutipemodovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/vazitoluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/83719205450.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_off0000d508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD508 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 1fcb196ca41b2971b3440ac8d613cfba1f90a3d52572abc6a65248f7a57ce36e
font_01_sfnt_off000100dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DC 10952 bytes
SHA-256: dc0da0747a1c457faf1a4998a02a21ca574a14ef1f603122e99fd1ca718d8072
font_02_sfnt_off00011a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1