Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097b00c877f4845c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:32:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7993f304cb064d2ad7f90a980d843385 SHA-1: 1f122dd07173e0856e5a2f67934df695f327ce8c SHA-256: 097b00c877f4845c4182d0bf38d28f04862030f88196c4b7aa2bc9c4d7a3529f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are structured as link farms. Heuristics indicate a 'link farm on disposable hosting' and a 'compromised CMS upload link farm', suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/jebox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/tibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/kunesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5a4a66cce5bc5a416a86b4cc07c91c/96328409946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/sadoluwabavagevuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052def737ab3ff01e710aec2d037b827/60412047155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d28521bba66---78547773852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/91682098035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfcba7aed6---56111953131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf66c7788ab426abd0e7d43ee4a7e22/vozoxidagonolafopabizexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/30694831277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/81300679438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/5238217782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/gawatimisabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d963338f7dc---20774380706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611340dc3176c---44905000209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/64030259052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/16947165920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnfvduen07ukoh3be4vmli3042/wuwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/megamepuniwivurajixiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7i47f4lr65k9cmos54pmu6fo0/84940223541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45763547f---jisawewade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltuq4db871fsdtect9i7rf06t9/gugowikolalubebikosekowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21ce75d83---zemimugarogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primehorseproperty.com/userfiles/files/gotuzuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=organic+components+of+soil+pdfPDF 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_off0000d9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FF 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 42c17490df7502666105dd00ac9695e65010587ccce5f7d22934bf03ede9e33f
font_02_sfnt_off00011df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF2 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 8026a0a429c5a472b09557eb403a22d87524bea6bbcfcf8c705fad6dec4c7900

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