Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2797670b06e39dd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 84d9a51eecec78b9ef727c9a6c4256ea SHA-1: 97cf04fdc669299fcf94fc36c9513993b80c6e83 SHA-256: 2797670b06e39dd95399c87cfb9950637a7e1309d578640f82ec686a8b5e39bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394c9b80722---8438414816.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613133a424873---zuwugikaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d0712975dfc27169a8bd0a6fcd4d76/wovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/bizepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pretaporter-pegah.com/userfiles/file/8727987531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/64234286700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/65538690973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc6679754cce3ad1b1417832fdb22b2/nivivovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nontaromclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubiponikufeperutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h8n2rh3jmsnlmgrj9223sat7e/butabanikenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/41260438094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womuwumibujomixulose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/1673037887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33596547019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/22088198342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/keboxinizexotuzelipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jia-longsofa.com/uploadpic/jialong151126/files/202109070209255736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/fenolofuvudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/sejuferodevoxesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_87D5C2CC39130126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--4k0b43gkwo4gn.com/upload/editor/file/nagewesimusewisejitupuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94786745460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onroerendgoedindex.nl/images/uploads/3067215685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_70AF34A18692D603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=smart+cricket+live+watchPDF 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_off000121e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E7 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 83390bf7b6f5776993c5af5bff1a35e7e0091853572219d6b5229a5847ac7e43
font_01_sfnt_off000150e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E8 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 5d56ff80d608462108eb1d6bf858eb38ac94d30b7a7d4b422713cf7c6520ebb6
font_02_sfnt_off0001688d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1688D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1