Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97a47d7ebc90d263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:30:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 184989f2ec7d02a0f51b8ad801309ed7 SHA-1: 7f8a487fac8ec6391eefcb1a0711d6e4e3545587 SHA-256: 97a47d7ebc90d2631d75cd9fa622d8dbfd8f1ff4f6d2ce6b87739122819130b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that contains numerous links pointing to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these links are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal being to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=at+in+on+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17449896468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/17456745422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schlosshotel-murten.ch/userfiles/files/55734048963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40157638545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/16698145514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1c0e108f3fc5771a28d692982cc6fd/31169873577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/supegowiwewidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ca0c75c92---34063818670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/zajipowukujovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16537d51c2faa873c11bc3a0063ae0cc/34288847566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1g0sd6ca6truk7an06f9it07i/34109641435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ce5df24a9---vepomuzejoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fff5650f4f9---8879927714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b240d1e2881---21531052738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cea2abcf7---31577970676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8ef1413d8f---2738066137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb0e1940b5---latulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12bcf364c4be80a3e5d5971f22fb39ca/takarijobufejaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/3340775325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/25391279545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/xedakiwujolegavudizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/gurudebosavopovavox.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_off0000c7d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D4 21948 bytes
SHA-256: 4e568161a85d8b835647f896fa663394110dcadb02d87228d0f58a49582be21c
font_01_sfnt_off0001000d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11823 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 50f0cc209065279fb45ccd60092d4fb67afa180ab910af1a5957ed1705b12071