Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c96317b3f61c61a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5e8f3fb76065acc0edc41445966561fc SHA-1: 6438c0d35558a7d78ce5ffd2fd0e511c702c65bd SHA-256: c96317b3f61c61a60499025ec80719f7af0bbcb320fba74a72a4907d18fe1437
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or link farm campaign. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sometimes+i+believe+as+many+as+six+impossible PDF link annotation
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/17201768014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61u4mo5afcaj03kiagtpcv9mei/maduwasuratapikumazage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/59014164086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntwbearing.com/UserFiles/File/lapanaxepexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36245764226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/tapafasipezana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dannguyetltd.com/upload/files/49296818289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f0f81ae6e6b05cdb6966fe0f3110f9/22271911994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/zitopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903a9325761---81235779125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/25471707959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6668921477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/ketedukivuxelojabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20bfbdd020---losexujozisunorudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclass1969.com/clients/8/8b/8b8b36ecbaf17f244e47af75a29dfbe2/File/98852849472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096927880c6f---11122882400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea59c56890---gulugupazisivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/93681083706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/bobevadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/23435166322.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_off0000d192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD192 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A9 10808 bytes
SHA-256: a0665f6e93947edda5ad7db0121cc4ae96017b92074e2ad997aebe536beeb23d
font_02_sfnt_off00010260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10260 18028 bytes
SHA-256: c31a5f14ff5acc4f4f21c13c1ad022df8580cacefcb0e8770e9e41863cf73462