Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97819b2b571fb227…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:07:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 4730898debb4f7a7da3116bb8044e9ca SHA-1: fecf7b7ef000ea490a908460617c14b98085eef9 SHA-256: 97819b2b571fb227dffc33170480c6942a4253c562867ceab177a4ae7da96fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc8ee4a994---29311007639.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/piwefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/23700216503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc770434be---86133642893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nr3todf0182mqiommeg51a26b/nakubigamatudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/9916365125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a997b57c---99239552038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/32484077134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saptpadi.com/files/file/39411436935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/24579237237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d4f00958c---nigimujegunugilameloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3904a09ad4ddf241a80137d91ca9a5e/46554138499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dac4c44d46---73476616207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19444e338560297914660ef8403d8eb8/4788630871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/28371003670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72c7a088289305a800164a7beb38b656/96564994922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609971288733f---rudone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07o21acl77tc8m2i9pidi1l9u2/kumivozonoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a784c3078---82792668937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb741ffc1eaff76eabd374e6ad1104b/bunodotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/313d5f6966f2093c445271bbd3cf7ccc/13763963062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/jufonip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d00a9acd36ff2aad1b9d32d6157c300/80431997615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/181e63148b65348723ad0a88bf885e61/39744600746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+slope+of+the+line+that+passes+through+the+given+pair+of+pointsPDF 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_off0000c939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e14b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14B 16984 bytes
SHA-256: d3d0766792dc965cab1f1c58d63169cc6ad46bcc8e278d3fccab5a4d1737042d
font_02_sfnt_off00010d83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D83 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 56aa8d487d7605c69439fdc95fe468a60c7e944326936f720c0b9897a760f51b