Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d896fc0a19a910d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:32:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 33f806c78af6ab3af3150317776db37f SHA-1: 823b6f992dbfa662d5793bcba1e9d707a6f4b211 SHA-256: d896fc0a19a910d54a6d27170d30d6f9c4300e6a860aa1fa2d85aa05ece29863
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60cb302265f93b209b12e39d28604b48/7896168561.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/kefiwepekojibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapupaferimoponulovidolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b51aa15725942d6cda61adc4beec61e2/10550398354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/komozejepegulagarazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070159e4e8c2---sofusegewigijibuxipipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d06906b6---99278210585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/difam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/pixikeripezogavejilines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11205831099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ee7acdc9---90499276239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/55225493405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75481caea715d3f2311ea176eab7760f/linapapuxesebenugebojabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/biriravamojuferebenuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/86873965348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8a738736fd7eaab45f1d16077818f5/25977785060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/90185740992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f34ceec453c46b055cbca927e159e91/rirumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/91474637525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijozamurivewogetelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/35048360131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb64e936380---pivivetulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/mavolusufolivisori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=el+humanismo+renacentista+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_off0000fe5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5C 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 4072a4abeb37be97404d06f536e17db67ae85b38284e599318d2b33e32a2bd26
font_01_sfnt_off00011790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11790 20680 bytes
SHA-256: 2ca8eb2ff11f08cdb619b5e7cb8fde2c26d164c55f10d42053a801282510ae8b
font_02_sfnt_off00014b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1