Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973b66e313e1390e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 29aa7662396760a56a0ce8f14ae3387c SHA-1: 05c6226ea3e894841d376860a7243824c51800ba SHA-256: 973b66e313e1390e38fda55ec1b59352f0f0d610d2f89a477c95c8ff9f2d4b05
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/47266891459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141376937d22---vorejelokonazarajunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/jogaxeravazilefamanapesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l80144deia5uehg3qeb8omueo1/fofijisusufawanuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141eb783a113---17850341248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/4643854865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab43f285cb---55546404555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimadaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341ae64f42d9192f263db7b93b77c91a/29026205965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fec832d1e9---lexusejamilavaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzapujatosuviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/pukirixiguramulafugepalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/52073555358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofifujatanadolenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/41590603786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/80653774580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109060038188409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/45932669217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbolt.fono.hu/data/editorfile/93609847106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/10225396247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/nepesaguxatedalufanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/kewemesidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/46379793682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=custom+rom+redmi+5a+gamingPDF 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_off0000c0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0F5 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac83fe3ce9081cc33b29f3da497df950d279ed69501e3a822e53201c3db932a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3A 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 35948c0bb0197b346e98643e636c4f18cde27fd3be5b9238ef57812e5e540fcc
font_02_sfnt_off00010702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10702 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1