Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c97b1d1bbfb74bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5d41ee631fffe6b070236c08d1c0b5a9 SHA-1: dcabf3f9e4404697373253ff6dfa631efa1b51c5 SHA-256: 0c97b1d1bbfb74bb8bd84786dc2a4008b9b383266d7e7557d8874e797f0b5b3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://grouptm2.com/contents/files/94768402144.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/8679561097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109050017361284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/19661172280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1eb7a613fc447f03f8b7109dfff5e84/99235895989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210904172353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89397592722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05049fc35ddf15e35b289403b7f0c50a/tiwojumagovafuzukixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210917172901685252f1lejgdcsprp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/70855873151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/nudovazikazufazoperuwava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/3876697074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/63713479047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/7277086491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbrc8j55mmbnaocsrbeqmtn7e/xisorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givaraxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c995740eaa9994beb2480f23a57bcef8/88065584605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44206363672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/selaworezijisekajudilotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/pokazidubafiwitexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/61015698483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464893f2335---17451234493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=my+city+airport+gamePDF 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_off0000db3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3A 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 240e6809f537494dc8e36882af059949f8061d00fd9c7aff590f227da9816276
font_01_sfnt_off000109a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A8 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 7706cf838b9cf0fa7616befda565d78c95057624bf23cca5e968e8d25f2ac323
font_02_sfnt_off000121af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1