Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97954b623e0d01aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7a8307d46a720f050d81ab550daa9ccc SHA-1: e9c5fb5d460c5e9daeaf116e1b5839f168ff2924 SHA-256: 97954b623e0d01aa62866359b24aca5bbe175077676d35308dcf958b3be5336c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to further the malicious intent, possibly by initiating downloads or redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://softtox.pl/new/userfiles/file/66943612681.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/55495240535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/bamelibisabalenoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346f20e33cb---vekapibizazotunuwebaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41199248970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachathoanggia.com/userfiles/file/jaxibaditiradijavasavore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/34994563469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/63560576474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/55859723803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhartiyambeohari.in/userfiles/file/27750188532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/62850517242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/jitarakajaradekugawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/48635634528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51372e434a721dc5f155e43c4b492465/63407148280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161432217d8122---58836710384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e412a5b006b10cb429950106293ede23/metuzufinafezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezalosipitiwowanuvuvadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c32a10bb65---91328697568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonganmi.com/userfiles/file/61782827988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/74847481857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7778866128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55192246095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zitugalanogiwuzeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/bupomibumalewurubuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+codes+for+black+ops+2+xbox+360+zombies+unlimited+ammoPDF 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_off0000ca7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA7B 11992 bytes
SHA-256: 56ec5e1c10408db7969777fa3debe6e8a89916305f656747582874e17395a710
font_01_sfnt_off0000e705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 17760 bytes
SHA-256: bac1f4bec5fede4129a6bf82b9626c420e402c84ac1639c9a81a8fc1c3bbfb2b
font_02_sfnt_off00011437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1