Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c97d044fd96d2ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2f72b658612a8dc16ff8f9cf4026ad8 SHA-1: 0e5856251c7139fc59ae10c926c24def7a461109 SHA-256: 1c97d044fd96d2ca0e50c0330cbc91407546ce7dfff0efa161629de0de5d85e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host malicious links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/47853602771.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e16c9ad9907---bosina.pdf
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61481688196.pdf
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24v2hphqcpul04u9cgp3lvs33u/19949802178.pdf
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/49000592695.pdf
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66496491155.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd89c06de7---fixolikulavevazo.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c42d243874---kevirumozejigu.pdf
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/domomubonevobowowilididar.pdf
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75953149599.pdf
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c845d2ecf298180baf9ce6333ba9d96/sesomamoduji.pdf
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/77696840742.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp238hf4vg2ffcj4e88hi97811/2370831074.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d33eff3c716674f894e35f5365f1ac28/vabusejudixuxalufun.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a25076b87d---11421625473.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a0e508afe---17581995114.pdf
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/88775942040.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13362ca4cb---61638308935.pdf
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/61270589333.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1264b26201e44b5187e8e806df1eb72c/65823576755.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d57d92e4eb---89940804081.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1988d21036158dabc3897b7ac86cb8b3/vowimopiteroz.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84bbccd88de21cf4a22024365ab2c635/jamokexanixebenin.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef36071843e4a4ac2378ccc9e997a57a/35463772807.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33435d432418ff49308da7b2759727a3/67486311947.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=35+kva+to+kw
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e14e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f964.bin
5e97f435157d2bf6f0e9c6cec492bcfc8bfb42ac89ea7997a0fbba0ee6bf76ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF964 9912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f70.bin
c55665282f5c0a4b6643fb366eeb1d076d331ab143e549e7e6691d30cbf818db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F70 17880 bytes