Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297213cb92e668ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 16:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ef273c0581913a2120c80022cc16edf9 SHA-1: 43219b923dd5ceb233393ed6eb7b27896e5c7f7b SHA-256: 297213cb92e668aedd649ea117dcd3c293454ac928466417c1e63a9eb46bb448
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute or host malicious content on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c908641961063e99e4a38e8e7e058ddb/vivunejipigibawuga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9dadc0f54---17384878732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/xuxofekeses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f042290tgnq5ekr461mt04748r/runozaxurubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/88150961680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/39182968798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52580788422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f36e40414ec---balapolumatofuforiloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825682f32f2---kusutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/kujime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33de83d73ddfca9c96a7e1477740b202/rakenononikajetunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/13242342775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb23495006---kedefumukoroneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85597311587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27fb438b2eefa93740dec2642a50e0fa/tifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca476e9b3b---fojefinizolifovusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77007311ff944e1eaad1f914f41e38de/lovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/61065058274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889d9794f533681c69e8e536243e7e48/gexotorukidiwolimupibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5km1sldl1516139qfnp4omt9dm/97983530214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/zajiforarijusawusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=smart+meaning+in+managementPDF 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_off0000fd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD94 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 269dcb2ae1928829d269279e68b8324d5e2cd6ff5ed762a9a476ff6f69c01c39
font_01_sfnt_off00011460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 01d4a4c08bc9f5b8ba2305192e0f360a3b9202e472e23db6fcca378fd20c21d6
font_02_sfnt_off000141b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1