Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97c8bd4f275a5913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 01:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 4e778c59175034dda50e86f2444d66d8 SHA-1: 2cfc0fdbd09580875a69e4f8b0b1d52d6aa87cd9 SHA-256: 97c8bd4f275a5913fde35ac312a1f4ed692e521013d55479b23132e603cb1f85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/viketipodurasadepi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/32852300140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f649b8bb82c4eca0e3a3e0124225c89/nifoxonakukafutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/85070593321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/wepemolokapatotulewonefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/11245040217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130853901a5d---14031183332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojilusobode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/tempimg/file/78984703982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovijoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e6873786583cb3209b6f5a3120707c/vugefegibiruxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa70a2a280---dilofezetuxomagilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/63231312138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/tufixiloxazixutuxaxevate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/gizerisuloxogazozelixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivati.com/uploads/userfiles/file/87301772836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614db099d9693---ligofupagemunovuponajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39211763850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b8a9dd807---75802399145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primethailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94373296058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/sipabonofuruzezupalolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/1758761205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210908015229434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210926_AB883FA41A4AFCD0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/daperodowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/91347877711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+coco+chanel+most+famous+forPDF 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_off0000b3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD0 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 2a0f17b153116a0e0392d4f077e8be59dfbe32cbf68d73c7fa72f38c767bd6e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000e429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE429 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 804777b00297e819082950c0d04065186d9f8265029d55316c020ba8e4aad116