Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f96495b664de3342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-27 21:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 93246052c7691d6988546baf34a4b9a8 SHA-1: e855085e94cd14f3b03e40e0380ba34f3856a331 SHA-256: f96495b664de3342b35a0717eabe120bbe0732178830a1cfa0849dd002f2342d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or scamming purposes by redirecting users through a link farm. The embedded JavaScript may be used to further obfuscate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+reader+in+animation+studies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210803124115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/93862159221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/rabovozufamuxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071157426a9a---vulafoziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1423109d4---28689839930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1qt9l57jq229iqvpafikbmkce/lozisajizuzepapododo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/jidebejowudewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l66fcg06b0qr8qoaqapdtrpagv/runafaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/39579954169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2287cee36b4e9d969eea3632547274c/46026511177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63e4cc84b5774730e3498d09962a7977/78957059955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/vijulakoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/monekerixekowibiwozafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3ujb31g0cc6hs76r51em1s503/mujiluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/gawugagosefenagipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80108221702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e1124d968216d3b1d147b8522ef1b8e/divawirewivefefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9c15f35a0ec0f333733107142e5c66/11867815206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0174b35b39---57132007796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/pisotala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a1bd1422594d11dfda59fa0b5554ab/sowavejokirepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zima.snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42291519474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/35612749621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/toreribulakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/rakojiwoduxopeduweb.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_off0000d75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD75B 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4e26f54eed3cf3b39c11be4152e932a88465b89cf9c5d9be66e31183a64d8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000efde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDE 16200 bytes
SHA-256: d9437bcf68d2c5c2211b6b69e238d835f4f264fc0c794fa5ff4fcb2048799caa
font_02_sfnt_off000119cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1