Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 397da965be76f965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 05c160db09aa04d460e7d07387a09204 SHA-1: 5de14fff353faa3ece0c1931c29184bd6ed6afe5 SHA-256: 397da965be76f9656f3a600dd998ee325c780182cfe2e24587fca2fbf15a9533
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected 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 compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'link farm' findings strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vtech+kidizoom+duo+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126b46e3b4ca---79113452638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/10763654001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/nisibufojaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/zotonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/4250263088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44e34e39e4---34675584377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba30655cfba---dejevipokudaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/zigajanakovabaponabigesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4tuk0u59rkshbqvfq8ukk69ci/netimibazifagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/20946514001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f00001621d5cfb88dc949c27d12a8f/domujeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73a37d1239---58470812294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e1fecc702---daxakareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af22c6ab6ab7e6dc224735a80ab656a4/jotarinarozodiperikewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe09189fb2---buvugumugonexukaliwisulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/gaxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/88389676384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e17ccd051c---16065763211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafebakekimazewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/wuvuruxubulaxazuwinopeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/foxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/zulasidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/77656463530.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_off000100e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E6 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 981fd114e087d972d6ce8374a1acb1c8e6b6ccbc2c1f498490e14b4abf83c5d3
font_01_sfnt_off00012fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E7 10588 bytes
SHA-256: ab56b7b92dd7446c8a8c6ab7cb72f2b2951c60e7d34edd32bab166143bf1b68b