Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97531a78e6e42924…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:11:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 94a63776064fe1244af272b828c0bd79 SHA-1: aa11917c289e015ef28bc46796bd6c777120557b SHA-256: 97531a78e6e42924c86254e706cddc7e473afe044e251ae26009e376f5e83367
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 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+formula+for+calculating+net+present+value PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2077a3fae4---35653414669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hinf9atvgmqkls505k5vcaba0/25272488354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071abeb880ef---66780100563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/40817457341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66a3be5717e81693d2e0121d89ac296/53612250708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/19724841969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6f09e7b5db65ca85b336f40e02565f/71985992929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bc4bd8edd---66591284456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4d377edc---41807663088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/16686745701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/dunonisisogozukonovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/63112430222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de02f26258de831692257f6b2d0fea4/zibulebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30d979cfefa9c56a3340331240dbdc1/15061478798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d2e39ac0769b6bd03f7c7bd9f98632/jubuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/vanexetukiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/35110210605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7afb06ef86818fba7b06bf7028375a6c/61030839246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/96758869349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086637cb98e2---24169889080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_0AEB247E20CDAC41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd983e0f10f8768fd374e29b56937a4/2441686380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hs7usl3s3q8si6i881gep484l/lijozolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/wugamije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/25937095058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000100ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FE 17320 bytes
SHA-256: f1adf81c6725547d12d54b2207da7cc1d02e3ffb7e8e66f0787d4780aca70cdd
font_02_sfnt_off000146c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C5 11088 bytes
SHA-256: ff493fa99a4ffed39885623cdf6fb7f45d506dc2e30746f3323d444202725010