Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97654255d54e5cdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:18:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7c90519c7fa516042d6afbfe897028e7 SHA-1: 879299d01d755755e3f9c3931bd1348dce6a090a SHA-256: 97654255d54e5cdc3f596a42d567fd164071fa6a9c0b700d566b1aacabb998dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for initial access via spearphishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/33479552026.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhshbp0lcbbhu1p40qvekat8kk/35315854087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d50838d4a---73587031677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/64688555226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/dujuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45830344001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/xefewakigegugivedixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochoangthanh.com/upload/files/5681322048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77784376885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadarkogomezfamily.com/clients/7/76/76920377ef4e0cfe2c6e77079a05cbd4/File/nuvoxepezutafutotibimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/popifuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/bojoteropirobekedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24445697030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/gekanunokawerutekuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/2107454268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e1aa09f0f0f918442fc7f10d248f93c/57261390259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3409e6b91---kubaxulowuvutuwenijima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ed9e38268d14a613cb8dfb32b268f7/moxopudoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/gitigagixatexetuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/97575450269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608751b438d58---15507978456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/68613436242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5ccabd8fb---vinopinimatetajajugego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=bacteriological+assessment+of+sachet+water+pdfPDF 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_off0000baf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF3 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 9e13dd3b2b5011b4192b0153bc9d847666535abdf5b9d04b82c8ce0c8c3d514b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D8 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 5f300bc7e74dd0d1f2bc2a8b989334dd7a5d4b53c287c77b027dd0e29ccf7f0e
font_02_sfnt_off000100d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1