Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e96c33d20bbfa002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 579df79e5e078876a916a6733aae80ee SHA-1: 11be4c0d796cb906719367b827d80f890f990087 SHA-256: e96c33d20bbfa0025f3b63bad77c32ebba185a985cd65c8ad78985ba9d76e123
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a malicious PDF used for distributing further payloads via compromised web hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2fd54feebd02a9c0155dcb788abdcd7/zakezaruzaluvejuzudopixup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/dibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b916766fd62---36588539908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6433249ad---xanalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/17346680634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/7872793289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/zuguzadekorawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/joruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148c3cb74f6c8fab29080c6179f7eb41/84654801515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusemefokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/59313713252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/liniwemapexatumibazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/tejekadawamokudasizusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/469f22b319545775613710ad9c9be875/20320159539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/niluzubilofifomunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5752127063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwepoxexewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/88773277577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/44731309586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ht493jkl5os3vflvoth2aqfl/62545078640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cb46686147a286d606475ce40e9460/rafunedajudipuwikuniwuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77c46c1fbf---33640401540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/juvozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/zixitawedivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=day+and+night+worksheet+ks2PDF 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_off0000cf20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF20 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 420e7213c5e0b178650728ff958398441dbf16521abb786368440b3bc77c1b4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001159b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: eda4eb0b9483f2bce96f696855f631711c6add5e22d2f11c15fe5da83889d798