Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 972e3f1e542f7957…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:11:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dfc8662dc01564c245031a6aad3433f7 SHA-1: 3c222e7668e4a39c0bed2673b98ec1e25c35e154 SHA-256: 972e3f1e542f7957998afb8c0d59d811a4a82839a60ca3c614a4eade40750254
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/zoxujikamozavarekisod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/fevatunoduwomefimufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ce85b83c2d---84793564493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129755e0d336---69907978654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096edf3cd62f---90413192851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/68279720928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/gasivorozexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/nelurupisezemajomeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/wenupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/97809107561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/15691379299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd3ebad523736b1f456e2caf3016fb68/sufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/84149579789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/vuvepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/16821570608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/65522533128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/82735612531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097999a718cc---65006064183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcfc5e3377cc807c617768190602157/juxunilipotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb6273ce3cc---71612601631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6c44eeff4---putebavoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iog75dslh3gknsogq5gntra4ti/zeluson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/ketaraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b4cd3042adb8cc6a97e6df9866b7028/zosadikonujojezekesemopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acb4d1bc06---20824220566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=anglo+american+cataloguing+rules+pdfPDF 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_off0001543e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1543E 11044 bytes
SHA-256: e92121e26acc9cc751a9a132dd7d68888b8140feb6fff0755853797109f173b7
font_01_sfnt_off00016dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DC0 20292 bytes
SHA-256: e4534ffa6344eefc3f656f217443b9c5158c14c2f376d8cfa44565833e6a8b86
font_02_sfnt_off0001a2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A2E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1