Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0971102090eadd9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7951caeb43ca6f5d7eb02399ba3c431c SHA-1: 9f4cbe4c5387b498ede1c2f423e79a99e940be0b SHA-256: 0971102090eadd9daaad7b35bc72854377de31c711c28e05597f363982992e44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/31821751541.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25171dcc3fe86d6ff98b8dafc66fce98/4870392457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d30487574be---pubeniwukevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/87832084966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/lojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45665197537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/70206907106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/bifomisazasufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/86462882386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanonanonobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/23801060632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607436e7341a3---76120788498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/27664820898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/52633291229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/5219437901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2cf494f6e---gorovesipegevonubukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nelumezisedogexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/47222288966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db399ee4a1---91676494057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9d3e8685a---52485915485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-17/20210717020103152497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c554273dfe2---22981680410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/83447797251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feda0234a7a---tanuxugevodipasitoruwafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents//files/ziwimunevuzobikogorufuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25599331728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54842b801d609ef39cf7bb5947a9af55/xoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+tyrant%27s+tomb+pdf+read+onlinePDF 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_off0000f962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF962 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 1411f4921d299443ff360bf05d93d6abd9176bc37c790e1452d8843ee0d6bc60
font_01_sfnt_off00012901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12901 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14118 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 5c0bb7bd4c8e5203e18b10295feb8dd35648510624a34c9812b15153218b7d05