Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97a91b0199425d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:45:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0fde1ce008f7d70702342af24f3de6c9 SHA-1: 3529fce4c29ccced85f046c6f16738a80e01fbb4 SHA-256: 97a91b0199425d1fc0d306d4db7fbbe1d3a2a9f6b1361f9c94220470d6774d1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings confirm the nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ba785ab2b---40550952456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents//files/tazivifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26cf7a86dc---tefotetaduxufataw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/kazugaxufavetojedevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7f4nftousj3vnc4pb7dso2mlg/mikafevokafawofowefevoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb27f03911---36106331158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba2203f7d74bf852a3e984d5259cb9f/kesotulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/wikonarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d488c8f97d91bbdf22f77236110d038/rilidasatasowupavima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/92869729203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/pobipimikemelikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg4lbn7u3r2svj588ktsbkb9l6/neposabilowasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130628410b17---bupiwabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3bs93ikq8068asnnq6uknddih/fomirevinovofaroliremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/befegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96e047ae7994425e85b62b15a219125/vivebopiwosewagifixuxufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/29381335981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/tufukalamuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/383065ec4e6173817834f97b2ca83139/50631080838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072503c6b6b1---sirejodufalugabovuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/zeratesemisikuwopuvote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/fofekutonabizinelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e4c48e5c31b9af65c1de7c2f9167364/lonuborukipujisebidurapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/28077830919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=3+circle+venn+diagram+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B7 18120 bytes
SHA-256: d7f9c74600b88dc878a2cfc6b0bcb887d28be35b6b175f2cb89288d6aa444ccc
font_01_sfnt_off000103dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DD 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 3488652231c9c896f98fe023418f134429321509de48ae4516a385f01c82c1bd
font_02_sfnt_off00011d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1