Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b96120f6457fc015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:26:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b5ba910f69d5a562197cac2e1c5c453 SHA-1: ef4a7132da26fa873d78969f2a5a3b8ec30e24ab SHA-256: b96120f6457fc0156516ff206a7abe483cff11edfab865ab04f53ddf29528739
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=analise+morfologica+exemplos+pdf
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/90686107343.pdf
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/27537783217.pdf
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitateg.pdf
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/xenedotumupufa.pdf
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/kukila.pdf
    • https://stw-nowogard.pl/download/file/buzefoziveva.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7db6c54998676354828046a58d1f95ee/69058667574.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50911309e4ece88981cdcfc051ec8d0c/ganogi.pdf
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanebesaveta.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4340a3b7025e415cbbfe5ed64c1fda84/80210804035.pdf
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84446981718.pdf
    • https://mexico-airport-transfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejob.pdf
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/22719360568.pdf
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/dugixuwudamitezamakitas.pdf
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24624405177.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/labubarowipulidomoje.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/8896474304.pdf
    • http://speed-r.com/js/upload/files/gazakuz.pdf
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/doratubalosufibipojuv.pdf
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/78957379105.pdf
    • http://chineseclothingonline.net/File/rukokuxepujakakij.pdf
    • https://megacook.pt/site/upload/file/97932027056.pdf
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/zuxakiniwiwalanaxu.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_off00010a61.bin
f0ecefd5014a1ed54f22b5a8f0ff7479ac2166e18998c657fffe98002c9461d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A61 20068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013e47.bin
03b0b665bc942ef2d96876a7aa8aa3c90ea17edb378d7bf2113c8bf00465d1e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E47 10948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001576f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1576F 16792 bytes