Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 197a36ce003713da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:33:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a94db35f8fc1005aa9ed5ec6d39949ba SHA-1: 576d648cb3d53e23c2a75f18c9491b6c637dc558 SHA-256: 197a36ce003713da0c59ede02c7ff748a6cd23332ce6497f31ea124e27f97fd6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sbi+specialist+officer+recruitment+2019+notification+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/xulotafekesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/bumonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/23269177794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210621171239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b22194663e---72576748326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c25610fedb5b9afbdfc243dec3fc4b/dezafukenaxevafurojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d271a63ca---16304180241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bcfb130077b6a061e545528905636f/20519777504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd5845750bf8a6ac8e3b00d7ea966f8/tuvezusukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertinu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/julobisibaxeguparureri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16228397139164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/61515789362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biserica-izvorul-tamaduirii.ro/files/23794415883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/26235585171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210824_917BF4B355A77FC7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118a9675b993---gigunewasajawuvoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdldebasrne6qonhk073sbpphp/futazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/85318759101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc44v7pvae4mph3d3735hhgrr/26077122599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/36292537502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/kutexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f332a5e3732---81496155422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/sikezuzogozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na8nhvp9a3452rjndb72bqold1/17484760024.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_off0000e2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DB 11556 bytes
SHA-256: cc51f5c9ba76454601724236c4f910b1d06cd2a8fa8e8425cc7128d12b5ae4c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0F 18588 bytes
SHA-256: eb2540f1686cf9079099c6f3d5b2216e168692a58353c6ae5d290b0ba25c46b5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1