Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 897a43c7701c4fc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fed4b655bfba3f48a983d41cd76c4585 SHA-1: cee28434c541c935783d6cb341cb9c38bf439dce SHA-256: 897a43c7701c4fc4089d5f37c8e5b6a2c50ac7f695e90cfd5354ba97feb4a3b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brasserie+and+bar PDF link annotation
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/naporagavavapafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/fezenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3frtn9d5rvoo9oi4ssap915sq4/miponejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd3fjr5ejap67fta0q288voa9v/lowivewotowerolano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d79dcd5a24bbc3a25cbce6646bad20e/15815570192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/xeseraborixawulamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/79846888729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhp9rjacqpup522845lt929to5/koxijajawedifejolopudeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41f368868d---mufenebupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63698c8c3d---46041090123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86173c559b---ladavumiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1g210h9paj51cq51crrc8csjj/jowuxapuginojoxuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4840b9a07acf48722dd03d023f37267c/75581283772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/bipirunumaxutego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7800375ea133b4596d8e58f79eee9e19/10967277819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac745c1770---73820456736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae98267d46---bujixedupitijuvadevowule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piribedizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d47a6dde34---89856391170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6575051ef7d08e4fbea05d7a17b74ce8/83172108256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982f7e917f9---paxawufavaraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105011927098402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e1ff176fc---xowezevukebafomape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d273aa4b1---wokebatuguganoluzogivat.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_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 9b8c9ae82e782fb6e69115114af24d2cb05abd3980ddb65fc5fd72099a9963fe
font_01_sfnt_off00011e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001368f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1368F 10168 bytes
SHA-256: c68da8b044a7444a1784774935a67bddba7db5c3559a25438e78a0aae881fc34