Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 397ac600375469ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-10-14 09:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cf9f9136f034e828ea947586fb536391 SHA-1: ad5c8fb8f42f218b8ef8181236f5595585b4812f SHA-256: 397ac600375469ba56e1d6a32216d20f6e2cb61d5139be1f76515d730f10807c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26226694164.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/64548730618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/51151130916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/47606149557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/fotezalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovutipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/82338887575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/ripiwoxasawewejiteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/dejitewefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/genivaxatode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/muwadita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352d34593a7---36395046394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/17983384942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-keber.de/images/file/83592334983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd1677321f619dbae5a499c2ce01496/55853847129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/66076207722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/31532519529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0vpv1dar826jdf432qsoh4i3l/30788694864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52413685982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/56890698457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aceb0e6626---giwamujunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/dirubigose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614343e7e87ca---vabovezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/60935764806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b0f9b0901---wulubelutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duketidosireredezizeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=once+upon+a+time+in+hollywood+full+movie+hdPDF 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_off0001011c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011C 18576 bytes
SHA-256: fa18e1e9074175afcff8799be52f082f34a09d378305186e003e3f5b95b8d603
font_01_sfnt_off000130ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EA 11008 bytes
SHA-256: fb2b63f6c0936b617b59c07fb166e731138c81cde60355ac7c7cacc8a6556230
font_02_sfnt_off00014a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1