Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297b3d814847f2c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7ebc1e4dd0b0dabe57dbbfd9c8a569fe SHA-1: 74530927e09809b7556685155edc7fb4542af782 SHA-256: 297b3d814847f2c3e540e235340f8f27a3e21c81539aae5b9b644cef33a6937b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or phishing lures. The presence of multiple external URIs and links to disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malware or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+of+elements+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/66197467017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-hinothai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timizejijikujokotojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/wafapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q47g5r09mphsmf9v843f91emr4/merojuvagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/segovetemopotugikodixovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/62815286738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e0947dcd56ed9f1fca120a7c8fae1a/sakipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27790025479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/sizofewevobaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/85362100475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/82698004158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0e2cb9e40bdf413757071fe3058a52/ravupiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/39341887100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/96798751862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/xomeraxodolafifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/jalogosixidibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/15758271955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359cf491cc8---4576309795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d13a93460---42025108028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d68de9506bad01fa3b2377398971d8cc/90363658896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devitohomesorlando.com/userfiles/files/60027862976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109170255355449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/jopoxowerutidaxosaputirew.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_off0000bdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFC 16796 bytes
SHA-256: b5bcff195ff9579d3a9921637891f8ffaaf19cd65aea43401386da90f2990003
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EC 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 9016ff25d17eb7988c13baf1f100409082930f05b280b70a88c33fdb009831aa
font_02_sfnt_off00010253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1