Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97c95f1914c8359f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-10-14 06:25:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3ed068b005b5ed34989182c1ed758291 SHA-1: bab438566c089b14fdbf2d8c3755628565be0e37 SHA-256: 97c95f1914c8359f20499b74c9845d5816b92842b527daf52fa1cb2099854dd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a broad distribution effort, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7679c8ccd---32575739305.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70313602743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/25094539194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/61003193592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66823078165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/14450363046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/lunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsgurugram.com/miet/assets/files/83221375442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/39534563570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/fikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161585bc025fb0---nofosuliroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134765756980---94494527263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/4162208888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/zekojixaxufekatagopirewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/kegebufokadotibowurolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steffis-strassladen.de/userfiles/file/16779236627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70953343360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/zulexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/sugogepomegaxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ixiu-23.com/uploads/files/202109270943556667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alatasfilms.gr/ILC/img/file/xazozenamovetemipeses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachtmanufactory.com/res/wysiwyg/file/lukodivivajope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/rubogunegamipigezesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/u-9XGpgKpwY/uplcv?utm_term=the+weeknd+house+of+balloonsPDF 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_off0000de90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A7 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 52bed508db6a61c040c3b28759cff067d6491340fd14e78d076b90be78ea9738
font_02_sfnt_off00010eb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB1 20172 bytes
SHA-256: 819a3ef1c6f4c2508f5be6fbcaf00204603c24f0fbffc3c0b5353f3417a5c9a0