Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 971cd8dea43b13d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:08:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: afbff9470340206a3c75fdd9443be288 SHA-1: 67534737965392c1e44f6c29f832ced6f7d651a4 SHA-256: 971cd8dea43b13d9f64dad34715e9f2477aecfc7ff9233e4639bdc6048a04796
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/40029970213.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ef74334589706926bf55394987a6e4/savosoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/melugotovovopedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e054866fa896ec9ba721416f8ed306/vosixenilexudorojokiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/xobugawimixemuxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/16766801858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35778398411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141162fb4219---83066618582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kuvogewowikikotirexejabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gu-bo.cn/uploads/files/45492221570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/ledirerepifomesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5b8f84871---67429072411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/18551257101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/62758632104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36777649479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/30454377050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejolezubonemalilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/vewupataduzidofixogapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80599830245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/mapirutulugofunebagubafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/25705247801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.nagydavid.com/files/files/50676348809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipaborima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/xinotukuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/nakizajidafigesejuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ds+cam+androidPDF 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_off0000f9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111FE 21348 bytes
SHA-256: ee5ab2ae9e34b2a166a3010c79f46569693386c7e858f287840b14b9aef8f5f5
font_02_sfnt_off00014a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A0F 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 9228fdbab14083461e292ceb49f8bf5c886a305b124052793f18d0e698c72686