Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0197940f635277ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d3836d94459403898819933efd1db3e3 SHA-1: fa4675f0acb466038f614642dcc05e260359685d SHA-256: 0197940f635277ead0547e3ecf601be53940b79f490e3fc8eebd55c21c197aa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e564d7f3ec8efe56ba85c358b210e635/xagul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927a446bbc0---98993828790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/xojerilubininekifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/japokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/95926606542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744f724320b---dixisexarolukatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/61559454216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ff73e1ce5d82a6139d8b251643817a/3957240591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4350eb0be---59578048786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25255320431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51409417189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p102d84u2qac5fnu6fiob0u55u/94969103280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ef7e562cc450f21a21a1bd226141a0/visabibiladetamarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0455d902c8a70271c9ba4ec08f0031/gimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074184a2af17---bopagiwufekulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/bumolaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12920cc6f33b900267ee9ef131c3e4e/93307092804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b209635d9---lajorikigututunajimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/ralabotiravawugavolinoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46066aa8b4---daxonuvuvalakutafemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/guzenuzusilijapopoxobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1505c8d4d32a90994c8c4d9e4cd94c94/55619755532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378a8giv5l90e87faertufq2n3/17470970120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/luremujigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fde28ce13---34566197141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=1968+with+tom+brokaw+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0001a586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A586 17960 bytes
SHA-256: edf56d3744760a7cccf7bd8dff8663dd773ec3dd9ba62051dc6212cb8e2cf664
font_01_sfnt_off0001d3f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3F8 11532 bytes
SHA-256: 3d80bbb987d8d926dc19596dea09606a3e64e8eda1d758b86dbab441f6dcf7d6
font_02_sfnt_off0001eef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EEF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1