Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97aebdcee72d905c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.3 KB Created: 2021-06-12 09:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf3933e9ee6dd10a5da6f69d3a7b9ace SHA-1: 8936e4b9964bc80b07d4181ddc8ad2c985e8a19a SHA-256: 97aebdcee72d905c68212b929206ec870c449639910e3a7e04fb3804b2e63650
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF containing numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using the document as a lure to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+yusa+guide+to+balance+espa%25C3%25B1ol PDF link annotation
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17acc2ff3a---69416421703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c57691d68421c68dbad667973df5750/senosila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/bizakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/tinofoduvedulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d52f05a2a---84885830188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2ca1deff8---53454863006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607156bd5b3fe---vabadoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609939edce38a---kobigajuwavefarunobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/15819965000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vp836n7g4lkhtttufsiu64nac/6009188786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca2e5bf3c1---82901770995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/xexatopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709541516b8---ridoduboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9b851323---96796617737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963af743777---2848359589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topidetitidebuzaxubizekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ee79806c9c7ccb88e070febf996f17/lugobobofokivilewaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001639e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1639E 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 211b96c1ae16751448a9080620273d79cdecc7613317d7c8ea2068a229940284
font_01_sfnt_off0001768f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1768F 10504 bytes
SHA-256: a118e693fd59cb4cb5e087dfb03bccc87f864dd55bde5a0b2a18677fa83301df