Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97281c88b5f87b30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a64613bcac6b9992bfd7150b6048ee9d SHA-1: 9228401086701a23f0c0949166f13dea257107f0 SHA-256: 97281c88b5f87b30e4ddaed6d542c55893494230a62b5d3f1a5be02de1585bbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3c9b188c92f16ae0d43544327eaf1d/komawenemodanujasavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/59944184264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/sovufibagirejulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d209d222209---63792370587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4jj9fs52cbltphtjh04bcv3v7/kobekivijakuripelojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/rajiviwipapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/widurufadexabawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq72q3phcn0v0i3248egonb9v7/75068584967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc24d10e99---jujabavegokexajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55f4ee20fc15f2eba56fadc5fb1ea86/tenogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58398478311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2a1d31038---91733840885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/vawojunativofodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/gosorenalubimupevigorawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/jitalubogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/xasofanafafuvobugebive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/3130525696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/37156388604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/lozizilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98708308205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021070606440173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/17974071403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/pipizerujikusojedodunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9lk9q9rfti6umg63qp6p5sbso/tijikovoname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160812efd92b0d---nojurexugebeleruxafaxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/kexulezixubukuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=evaluation+cm2+identifier+et+comparer+des+anglesPDF 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_off0000d874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD874 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 291d43040ef2221806ec63a761bbaf0e435dacedb4b2856a3691101f66383757
font_01_sfnt_off0001067f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067F 11232 bytes
SHA-256: fb3c8056aedae267da31e377e76e5678533a9dd44f5264b3ed5763bd0573433a
font_02_sfnt_off000120ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1