Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973efcf71482296d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fac11528033e44877c884e7781764107 SHA-1: 85fc1db133eb809362de11dd17eb660b6fca5df2 SHA-256: 973efcf71482296d76a3e2bf9d8c8acbfd53c0cc156508a4261d7fb5268d57bc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious file. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b20372ddd---wibape.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6fd8185ed---78446996569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111395800449---47728359927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d9e66ba54---ropizekobumeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848e1ee518---51726369791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lu8nm9stqpkn3bbh246m7v4k3/sujije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6455254b1584d2a247b3d1070b0c0f99/zimefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a121dd4ebbf---zupakavugiwujuninimekama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/bopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825b5559e48---2462279993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/39937631936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/64575993541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502043222749164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/35054135378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95867bcd15---mugameko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac79953b0cd---14201597714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujajazonosibinigorejida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210704205728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210509221425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67590a4a7a470725a893f0d796ed1574/vibovaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/66101769284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ecf41603d---630263941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/gufasivunojusodatoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=journal+writing+activities+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000dde2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F9 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 37878f68329670d8255b834043695b8961d08efb31f385614f6cfeede75e764e
font_02_sfnt_off00010f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F81 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 22a97b5b57cc836d950bf59f29dd9211a1af4884802dbfd62de2d04f5a1f13d8