Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8197177ed830230a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:25:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0a637f6bd3d402975fb59ab544e61601 SHA-1: e21757c4637811c0f91247cd9f95474f93911301 SHA-256: 8197177ed830230ae36062c231bc27910b7ad0d6ce63d3c34a72b3e30ecf8c42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. This pattern is commonly used for phishing attacks or to redirect users to sites hosting malware. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links suggests a primary function of directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inverse+sine+cosine+tangent+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc139746561bb4b3e1160d2c7907ddd5/kubovibipetakixuwupeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/xedanufudovuxefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/81663001153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/66815021313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd64325c96---90496928041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likalofemimebuxafejafusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec20a21c1ef4b8fc0758e6f473a4547/wowuzikase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b6f45d8d1a48086b701ba796543cda/67318684348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608454c7c5254---15814011361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2e23c5c65---81204037693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ee02b4446---98472465255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobafifabaxeputarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/94947720278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da82b35338c6769b47e4b43d22512ce/52704286667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610853477320f---pinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/45076201138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfd936abd6---vavidovemerodotozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/nexapomekerepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/dopuxinidufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/rodevogudesedusado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/wenisolugogiliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b606f37f6cf---41885221423.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_off0000d8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E7 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff72cd7e51b9150f00ee20ea6e81037d10611c43531a89495f4ff9172ecda0a
font_01_sfnt_off00010726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10726 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F3D 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 2433413d8b98df8ae42309675a6ff967841fe2bacc1f0c35cf26da2658b48844