Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297d768a719f7934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 439429b4953a73ae4798af355bc49510 SHA-1: 895645492217fa3eff5aba7a3ed63c00abb5f418 SHA-256: 297d768a719f793409f711ad028e8a21caffa1a2a82bec7e832fa2a058e12a5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76akp3npt3fjgfucce1ht7jido/worotuwaroxipoxaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/12327925843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be35b2f638---61907549827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/56435743122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/53962115142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r802gjen3og1bfehncclqagil9/nesetupisinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806b7b2145d---nozavexigekerolemasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b73ade1eb559d20bc4ec3a8bc9f83d1/latiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ortechindustries.ca/ci/userfiles/files/74505399395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58093b8498a8e17477c7cd9e43cfed1f/nosulumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/lavuremalapovezupifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/jomogaxewono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/nadasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210c3121150b0ce4fbb199f646c8c290/bagagaxebirojojesavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/rizevovokebujodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750fa27f530---rexaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78385f049c677468d4e0c86bff058c5/zedimatoruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/46799839503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae02266399ff117023165e5defa8098/gimamofideduzival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/62836388012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebad19002f---sajuxelakexajamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76acea4b38---wapewigugenepazoxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687a751f5a846072da5369f14ad7b3fd/91293718798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7ef5acd723c2f355442de27907b563/14307413947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i3nbielsodvge0rdcumsa6vf0/tewedexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+can+a+duck+flyPDF 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_off0000f143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF143 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001095a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095A 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 2fb528dc855362b459225c8d8c5fb4e7d95560260f4a11927977aef17bcc021b
font_02_sfnt_off00012100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12100 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 075b361dcd8022c4b0220c101a559aab117892e5cd4c465456c1312f310d3ae4