Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097640e6d3ce8110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-06-08 01:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1618fcbc203778d20f56fdfcab85bf58 SHA-1: 0127ee8bf3fca2e322b600311de889ddb92eec4c SHA-256: 097640e6d3ce81108f5af72449c6f89f8a20340efd2676f4a6d86951961af0d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs likely lead to further stages of an attack, such as downloading additional malware or redirecting to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=saxon+math+course+3+reteaching+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jdgc1if5h047pq0c6fbli2os2/xomerubuwolijebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puguhrigruug7gg3a5sc81ua24/bokugolajukudifewajupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5155cbd553dc3b0bb552619624419d2a/busewitifakunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea173ae605---kiwawidepaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/93110612688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umjbiiahrceuljvtcjplta7100/51613413335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/malula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/31298401057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06d0f95a9e---65525583512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802e5a14cd3---gusumitoguxonizegivolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/fugunozumaderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27989fb5df5dab74dd866fbee5f768a3/sirimobapejolugoforaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4d1fb0f8b4e384850abe54ae8b4058/98116457126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/zaweriwupukiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/fosozunolidiwobegabubojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c987c2ec1b---7883352253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD965 5872 bytes
SHA-256: 3f10ba06b4eaf46a4c338773e2b8608c26972163654dac55a5bb2eee9fb50c8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3D 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 71d10a5c061d3d7556ce416c24e5c19d1393d1315464c6d7dffad8ec5d8e73b7