Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d96d97364149d3e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 08:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c33f4b5a3f98018ccf343d6fcdc54fb6 SHA-1: 63d36daca86a4df9fbe3cb47bbc381e846170d9b SHA-256: d96d97364149d3e5ec9bf26362ce30788332275d49d19083fc63cd85a35eca22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links aligns with a link farm attack pattern, likely used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=night+and+day+piano PDF link annotation
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021829542314704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/37443202989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ee42d83dd---40446303383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanenovemesipixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5faa3e1910f93753a6a8eccba1c39e9b/duzozuxufode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a388bbe474---sirimufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/20455053140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calhi1974.com/clients/46234/File/jolaliwirosilubuxavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26084779677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/33519025164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c935d07cfba---87830999368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvh2sk2bk0a1e756fdvnn39c0c/16391724898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkks7oo77u6e129p3em4mh6m03/52680096300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6121878B5F413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/dodunaziviwelawumase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c4413f11b19287b2acaf0e110e5bb3/refewate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/79416575195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsolyajuhasz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66040558871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/tosadovunuzilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/kobonebitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f530e79df11609125614b205cb4e2880/vakinagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/10638052479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/linufozefexulonufowenewo.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_off0000bac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DA 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 16ebb268a547b1c04e7416a7a4bd8a3a7244b39f9b65ab01ed1b8b64b0327569
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C9 15584 bytes
SHA-256: f3b2674207c3b122fe063e48f8f5e43e41cfc2fab93a22c682ae7184195c3a43