Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 897eb7dfdae90a4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: aea5e80598efb0275fce08db298b06ce SHA-1: 996f058bd747a65ead4995d8d4402857f9b7ad30 SHA-256: 897eb7dfdae90a4a2a3d034dbb4717cfef4de4dce04c4ac6762d93fb5363759e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content, but the link farm structure is evident from heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g087d4ng4jnl5n70db7gk6gcaj/12714075022.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827623946f8bfb0d41ddd60caf7f8f42/96585496191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltripclassof74.com/clients/8/87/875eff38522a6836d9fda94c5a2b6b26/File/potikosusuvika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnguyen.vn/media/ftp/file/77842639823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/66271928609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udpka0eafc9m05ufhars8duqg1/xudiwotiwalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721161656399720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///muvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5ffea69be---xiluwevudureza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b09c929b1788a2568b732ed528be52/16517024912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/46663087909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okol4ln6np4j4e0cu0m33g9ojd/49722907010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607827e34d8c7---gowonoguxibujulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/guler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miniredesugubusaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/27739184192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161163e4c91363---69333058450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e4977d482---sodotoxumuvegopuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd60414d77d---92772908199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78123784052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbd79d52bd---74600634107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f94d02cde6---posoxujuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f79cd1d30---positulezarilinabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f50559edfa8259199c4e4ccd8aeeea/86727865940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de6d225e1b0---xusuxebumikiriketut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=world+economic+forum+global+competitiveness+index+2019PDF 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_off0000df4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF761 11828 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb672772290e00d6727df3fa28b69eb47f71217a727b75dcaa0fc826e5d853a
font_02_sfnt_off00011353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11353 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 867aa14ae4551b1311fa13a41ff18b956c77bd9232bd3b532eb036ab3a79d0da