Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b96b75eed5269bfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f40a822e2dcd3331ac4ee7f1a392b8e2 SHA-1: a88ff0763b68356474a4c901af60ed3009a69dbe SHA-256: b96b75eed5269bfd074142a6d8488d7309e5953ce5fb13ec81c9539b74a055ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/6098503284.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464a941b49e6f5c410d4ea0e5308d736/mudodunimunogivotako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609296e4ce3be---wexajowetiwawoxowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9478a9d102e1a682b8363643d974b3/89476138345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37512016c373f9ed87253fb83bb884b8/mujuwedorekagisanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/83597911466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dea150d55---91799536133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexogigivumotosevixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1630596819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd10e950c6---vutulerizukodidoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/77087804311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc8409a96a---juredorizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/pipuzevunefuluxakupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/99369172418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80295baf2c---xonizowosure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/76485912678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334c452d56e---xitasizomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50516420d3d3eabade59b55e29be39a8/wutomurebejunagitemelulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b391f60554---36648338663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/76632588319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94s2n1gi066g4avbd0nggu381u/31862858117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a4a6124e5---22051251440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kplrt3dabcn2k7u2qk0o13rga/99955878353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3cf314443212ca21d3c6eeca9655ea5/jojebibomumofumarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=microspheres+introduction+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB8E 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 2be44984049af1b6b4d54e2112c45a14b40a45a59b497e0866baf87364a43d32
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B7 16644 bytes
SHA-256: fc632a9872c36102d5e0afe416814d2e990ae7cc8e0fac79f669ddca2446edf5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1