Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973fa6a6aa450de5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:57:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5c8adc64cbb966c00e089d6c8aea6ca6 SHA-1: 6895513aad05c8440d6ecdcae881c84d3f4c361b SHA-256: 973fa6a6aa450de5d0ee5779f00a608098465832b18280442e9e4287dee7d04e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The sample's structure and URL patterns suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, potentially leading to exploit delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805b87f3cca---91987013388.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoc99981eesuq7r3lic2nj7ec5/norugeximut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d9g7f1ukon3n6ghlgnq4b3vdc/33040215027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0deeba33384a6cbed77836537434fea7/36771632741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a12681bdfb3a9ae73808c71f87fa00c/38088533637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/zinafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8850fd04d8aa9daaf9fe588b7652fe8/vajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d84edc10d5---kodufitifesowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0sv6a3942m65nnk1ci6bdbtlv2/43754797466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/lemarebisofuxugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jo5buerltck92ok8m21ahaa35/jovulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904cdc3f857---nibalebovoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def303ab6874a2749616b8107d34938a/vodinipiratebubukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/11483999414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc1b572047---jiridawexedozubexaxutuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/pitulogesofedaxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3is6ech03n60s5luhf5rmt0nlp/80753236987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bklqub3ck3eltgslqhquktt043/takokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/93045101978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/duwesovaxogajakiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/busamofobafubotexexonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0dgblvsiemva1kh7r78h2n6df/51406618207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sol+house+studio+magalufPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEF 18044 bytes
SHA-256: b02be8cad12722f2c10fbf51c01aeb4a7715fb17cdbf83847fa9d04ae712ec90
font_01_sfnt_off00011887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11887 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 1d3017c7ba671d82e4c08d6b8f6df0265116a0ea6bffdadfda8912ddc381a8f8
font_02_sfnt_off000147a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A7 10772 bytes
SHA-256: dc2c151b68e815936359bf25fcbcc6bb571d6a77083ebd4c896b30149c60191f
font_03_sfnt_off00016037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1