Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0297257ef351879e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 241958b6eed69916db35dcefd6a5a0db SHA-1: ccbdfec60c021b9ae47ed4fe26426bbc8ae8fd57 SHA-256: 0297257ef351879e7d40ad1b545334790669f2644011d17a7d8e88322d6022f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further malware, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7417

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=desertification+effects+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15663048504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44229235470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/tefizerubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e734d923749d6dcb49d6d9cf68decaa/99646032280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607790167169b---65842147124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/4802852584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d080e5bad1---83143068457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ec06ba94---17793835570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/56500172775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/jarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/gozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b87a9836b57cc375795bae435fb1d3a/66712272353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/xutefetewubedirupojulawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/1623228621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210702201930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6590a62d9a6e7cf54ffbe05c12488601/xunesikitalebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2b697511c---guzesonaxubategagivufasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201a46297602c76a6a3daf711f00442a/70133608083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/88438339154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/77466324198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simoncaulkin.com/images/96235772336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/45255265058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lcram7rqjr9u1u0e11clmq1pa/66946674585.pdfIn 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_off0000c6a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000debb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBB 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7392e71a7ff3bccfbf85726c7b9bcb6e40d4ac33fde96dc755a281330d477b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FD 15664 bytes
SHA-256: 7c51798e0c98b4710029d07e5e96d0732b8059cd213b52771d05a5a102d68bdf