Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097e595df6ee3eb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 09:20:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7d8682ce7acefb2f10f220b64aa08f60 SHA-1: 4f804b26979cc4692cead972d8e3a770bb7dafd8 SHA-256: 097e595df6ee3eb6427e4f65a6ee08bbdeb8fca4710daf3d8c6bb05d33298d30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests potential SEO manipulation or tracking, and the overall structure points towards a phishing or content-distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+perpendicular+equation PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd8a603a65---zenarerobareromamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/majotenemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiwavn.com/uploads/image/files/16529816976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/gelipebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/40106551164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/wemegedibevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4adf6718eb3205524b97aea77ec1b6/1501491950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/3408373128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/85846570498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/58468506359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepugowudojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/89911778494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/20126797236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/71405199252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47464744044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk7t1c0duqjdumfdkpeplukhtu/60458617392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/1024594799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/33632937998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202110012012583213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/69032250412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lgassociates.in/uploads/dumijigidudezavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///dawogiwoxotiz.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB212 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA29 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 50a13948b0df2570bdf28b4cfdbe1ccc037b80703285dd7f35463aa8ffbffb73
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CE 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 0a43e87e3d6311d7f2e035964d696d28a44af5ed4b1073181b349762fd5870e2