Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97646459de1d4291…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 07:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 49f22cdadc0f72845e107415f060392e SHA-1: 10fc58c3bec467d4b5be4f4b46d33af3cecd28fc SHA-256: 97646459de1d429112096f08461072d6da401cabf8046828b2f69e78b98ab861
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a likely intent to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/20924625629.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/koned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/letiluvupogetilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cc21e7216---femaletoluzowinixarileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/sezurejewojila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/ledajesikomamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadclassof1991.com/clients/c/cc/cc689d7a74a098ef67b43942063c7ff9/File/vomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7302ci29gnhot4vrsrkv6r1i7o/82776715435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29562f24b1a77b96732da1448281704e/laxijalusomofubarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/88070928855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/jinogajosafidurusaguzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/49257435644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/lonojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10475e1035f4dd36c5193a86785edca6/regokojunoxisixizeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f751b08576---gerajixadomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/84701613966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17ddc754a5b5093150b6ca7e182ca59/jerorixida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf22bd0e39---gomiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/leluxoluxekezuzezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084720b1acc0---46550518602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/41128729336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/21432255469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104291711383168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=merge+pdf+files+into+one+pagePDF 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_off0000f53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53C 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9a732034c0914f7a8410c929116d243e8e57d3e8676b9c11a41ce4d34d8af3
font_01_sfnt_off00012465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12465 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c521620f966f4a3840a19268dcfba411cb4658eb441410887b858ed6578dd21f
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1