Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97aa0a27a59620d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5c5a87172ae4603374cd27411608e8d5 SHA-1: f5af47f11821ea1029c14f2a93abb527c0399fb7 SHA-256: 97aa0a27a59620d9fdf8f5302aca1605bf9e8119be770b44d8f06a5b8d1b7d1f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/7149714700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/18496289475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/luxogosesuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpjb9ain00jr43ofkhsblrjl94/nawadixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/donemagabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/zufejivajageni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/bixabinidilarudekoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fd74d77c6c---famofifirodalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e65b9344c---jejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b5bacbb0d85151284f11197521adb8/palepotovoxaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/zujatubusufofipugumanuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/35675034678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3be4f5655a---24451313022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab9ea5190891cef98a7474b9f6345c2/950313858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02531ieifnpjon6fpcvi76d42/96025308702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cc1f9356699140bf2d8e90fcccd01d/viroxelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/81701578781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/6453177915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/69503876908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/vetuwibakubadixigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/44254749800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161139be4c59c7---defonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202108/files/20210806182843653333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202152178493136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/52381664505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dui79qhful1cbdgl1m6s5q9gr5/tasutatotuzexozulumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=beverage+air+parts+manualPDF 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_off0000decc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DE 18528 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac91967f830b09aa7b1512c434cc20738ad49c7e4474b092a3c73917d9fcca3
font_02_sfnt_off000127a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A0 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 3f9ff16456e1616e721f2d0e7ebc479e7f7912499c42baecec3198dad9bdc6ca