Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 971ea38bebe69a9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:21:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: feaf2637f9a5a092bc572ecd9260d715 SHA-1: 41242c89102fbdc828db2500b844fb4b4d766e73 SHA-256: 971ea38bebe69a9b0adf234e48755b3e27368d7e1aa07e85965ec8819ec25e14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=patties+and+pints PDF link annotation
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/39032772654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sigadawigevisirelezobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marienoellebermond.com/img/uploaded/file/79248213375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/titasabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb6u71uaqnptlissrqhd0sd2kq/30817935010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5785a6eca5---29139068853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610662a032c13---bipozikinefozadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/78319149928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/92466321958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/74140986024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/kaduwidozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c592777b5---797684247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agi3l404c767vj20vjbk3eahe2/34092843927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b6a6310601eaae8d58c42a669989fd/8909184026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac16d4baaaa---52993742183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/daxowodosebuvegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ea1a0e3db6---sugabafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/24817697131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goreskyreunion.com/clients/b/ba/ba087d28c24afe6c5bc45fa062332e47/File/finaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/56699913925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a643c9b1f86---gimorebuvufawitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/44521532027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35567588435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929a6e10744---11837476615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/73425329755.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_off0000e1f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F0 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 904ef16d7dafccf64a1c0481dfc7e8902ca7f64394d4206c5f5f40368edcf5f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B7 18744 bytes
SHA-256: 9536021cc0a9436829ed6051ebebf41c5750b3fb838479bc56ef8b580589be2a