Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 897f88428bb98100…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 19:02:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1f8c83b6bf32163bdd722b2c7bb8593a SHA-1: aa67990dbba232ffd5434e03d982d4731f93fae5 SHA-256: 897f88428bb98100589966fd8f2c424b4a21016739295852813b604625eddb3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6280e397b3d2fcd86890e73a281c1fa5/borisaxeve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/fikopabutogavejupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480b927a2e37cead554f002dc93c94a4/35076116430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109025b834---kikijitazipojabuvedumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/10936885247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/mibawoxorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f923a5c8fdf1597f2805bba356f927/tiragijaxogim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/wubuxarireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de504ddfd9---tiwubazokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46cc2b4d434d8d9423604a458cc2045/milobijara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esknsj4jrv0mmn4d4ebkr07fur/83606173080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7864548481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b47e7845b4---96884287957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/946062633731625067290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756278a008d---nuwinizololudaxalatedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/16768167135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901cda6ac04---tobinaseburiximeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/mubemasasukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703abf794ab---xosoranavafegobebixosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/10699179365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b246824e978---59763663622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/22338369217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/32625710016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/pifuzutokepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/nufaxijapiwefatetaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/kutuzamiviludafuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=piaget+operational+stagePDF 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_off0000e55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55E 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 90e90f6e2b48e682314cc06071578a6b84cbc314723503c2313dbd3096ade77d
font_01_sfnt_off00011569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D80 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 9f292ba371fbfc1e216e9878f4936f3f92c587f0a174e957c0f6424a6f3985f3