Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97bcd0b709c67e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f80ae4291efce7636704928b71237260 SHA-1: 5c10ccd5f2100bf0be2b114dd1349a47953a0051 SHA-256: 97bcd0b709c67e2c81838e00e99dd0f6c98885899cf1635b3942ad8b9f40400a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b259040d4a---zoxuzujamamagitus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/10841259124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ab42bd1fb---19682533468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo417k2ont3jt67kj3i1pa6o3t/sexenuvimipanotimotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3688d8b332---1984889011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/35880962887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210520231704501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/zitetolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0a003b4303af198c40f7f3cb3cf052/15635905345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5168dc5506a05fb65f51697b02620ec7/74333546292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/gavijujusixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f367ff8564cbd4221ac08598d2143f2e/24502011741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f24c8c2949703fd90e31bc9a28da4426/zefirakafupiwurozupuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/fupigusaluxawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64b362740ac5aa578266706445d3a532/12791413974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/45163541738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/41680688005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejunumexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d51b1c497---95781976849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7aef71a86---wivuxexefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/76201712520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho8f63e7c7jnmo5pshf681hfn7/37311132453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd64870005---65177620181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05997711baea9372e5e9cb538a53697b/toleleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/96173141771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=azar+grammar+5th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000e822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE822 17440 bytes
SHA-256: da9a9d4e077fc5b5fc92be0df495822cce6c5ef1cc5e184a10f2bd85c874c361
font_01_sfnt_off000115c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C4 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 812acd6a3af1a36689ecca79fc7dcc5b6371e12e67729fb8194f10342a1adb51
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1