Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97c238d4f9ab4898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 14:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6264778c7c439865147d56c6774d1f04 SHA-1: 63a752fc0c5db44f5bbe5036e8a206096082fa38 SHA-256: 97c238d4f9ab489826e19cb9d8161895dee4aa1704f0517bd7889ff20ab18ad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users through deceptive websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://apsons.eu/files/file/65168664120.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/43568249035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bcfbef9cc867afd8abf5e9f0a1c0eed/litotovonivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84fb22807f17bdbbf26026e47941b958/82711588554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0ca1f34eb---nejalafuriruzopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d3dfb4e94---fivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609854282be8a---83459230126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/wiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/wejavigadolumexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608715a9d4679---jimifidajeduwutowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9atncrvq6jkd5qiqtstq8q7h33/99745867237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b88cdf1df7---87010310031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvonaxaforirimugotimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831ef47b6bcee969737743fabfcd5ec3/matubowozuwatelixobinipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c074dfea2b786f6093ec0fd6d4448e2/49306343195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///21351604354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609493e635e44---68175113858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auroraenergyproject.it/userfiles/files/dibalemoromirabela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifolezokeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/83956207901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekanunaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/xixilozuxibezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/gobuxigonovobezukufevaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=el+libro+de+baldor+aritmeticaPDF 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_off00010cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBE 20112 bytes
SHA-256: 2e55de2ef9c8c435ef6acca24f9271cb8db34d0cae9d649a3e8728b68990bd20
font_01_sfnt_off000140bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000158d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158D4 10384 bytes
SHA-256: c926c75819f5e46f09d200cb0b8797031a19e728924d3dd0e7068a7cd96a5bdd