Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97a1ce66e6c24b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 23:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 36011c5417cb82eb20af729e0513784a SHA-1: 1eaf02de7c6e733df706aff5828fcfc208becf84 SHA-256: 97a1ce66e6c24b98120533b4b5afa699c9a7513290523e83d6b76d5809626b0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prova+de+t%C3%ADtulos+o+que+significa PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c154319f771---70908310069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bce74c22bf---24456855876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80c2cb3caa9ef38b8972aff6d207dd54/polefalexifikojebizexipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f230152becd---mubaguzanigovezozudanawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c041ccd14---53884837517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607286f925c9d---4786314910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f145fd3b8d4c854ca4b0ca1a64f31d1b/11454737315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752237c0f64---31320393234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufebubosenewupesegasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/59857769392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/6261279265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ce476c754---kefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_CB123D61B9CAE5DD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/buvedokota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cac4c0ca15777cfca008543a85aa82c/73428614692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83705897143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/xafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plu8e64a57o2ldlcj26193euj5/binotejonolopuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/gewazumeravubefazefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcpg1pf6lstrfd0hd3hqibics5/kudago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39095909566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/76906568523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/7878221138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fe7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7D 11028 bytes
SHA-256: b101d103f1ae2c5f6d665e582ab939eb578c246e1f2e3a0eabaffc5571a453e9
font_01_sfnt_off000117c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C3 18812 bytes
SHA-256: ab0c6cbabae297418b51c497e9fffd70e4f02105967e848f45a52422e61f8576
font_02_sfnt_off0001457e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1457E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1