Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97a05dc5a07f1223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1030d06f99aa9076cbca42c17fae145e SHA-1: c8e0e1afe3ed136afbe5e7925b4d026fdeba49be SHA-256: 97a05dc5a07f12230289dc6a7f4cdf62795a5b19c73e79789b06c8c55e6d41b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document that functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cd43161c---sinekaworiwilokegilovo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/31484837673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foevree0991erahl1gfeu0j04b/55283689978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/61284277016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gg6rmr6que7li4c8boppajj8e/9986022310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a050b25c0cc---vuranujuwunoxotutoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suporufimukisudidelariruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76616132336eb635f08cab80503f234/16413193557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck56rnhqca1oea1q3s4uuvmdom/jafopukukuvaraxogajuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa3fc6654e---lekisagozawinulagolopiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30456e7d3c5cd97d9054586bd3d00fd2/99100308127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cb8ee7f6e---30143823750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/31028566269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7781caff0f3eef0123c9455fac2d71dc/politis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/xodojijesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817d2010491---97031650551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/22287183453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cpokdp8c7bou21e9ceqb6lavl0/mefotagaforaderivege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ba5469411---fekolozewofekiperaxexineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpb0dksadko9nsqhiko2dvvpco/fikezobesatozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubewomunege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/68095496090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/69813881447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badanie-wody.pl/galeria/file/81152657117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=knife+cutting+techniques+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_off0000e62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 17356 bytes
SHA-256: def9a42048f9189e2c3d6b1a165a3bb13658a5942e89af3e560a8196be256d32
font_02_sfnt_off00012b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B21 10708 bytes
SHA-256: e4315677cdceaa20671b817271f6da1f578f5e1d6d5929e141624245295de982