Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97ca3220fb72025c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:06:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d581b16cd2c0b376572a95efe8959dfd SHA-1: d689ebc71a3624a32af3c511d268bd22d4d572f2 SHA-256: 97ca3220fb72025c2cdb77918f44d093f3a836b90f26f3dd8a8fca746a2ae4d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous links, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress upload directory, strongly suggests an intent to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/25769129390.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/4985868501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifutenefezoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd05babdef6---mapudazomirifosidiwimave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industriefotografie.ch/userfiles/files/78628197962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/7991617796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katosuzuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/21779416979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6h0ag4dtvq45hu2jphatgrkub/wunizodezedaseliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210813134225198900lkz2e4edrewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/lujokizawazuwegetelapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/22227970237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laweruxesurato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c032d2b07d9---dukodejizamoxasorajudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/162836745890309136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/63775439828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/rafejofapegitifaregut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/78081480056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f045098d8bc54845ca65ae1c75324434/gaxedewanakewixunime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/zusijerozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317239fba994aeb1d2c133b26d5ef485/9748127883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en1sp53e014k59c2tdh89i5pji/84132353284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075acf913109---99123925767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+compress+a+pdf+in+adobe+acrobat+reader+dcPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/zexudamotezilezibanimuv.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cd8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD8D 17468 bytes
SHA-256: b6fbf645a0d5f89f80c44280fee032bb6727300b9178f8e43375e37836a73a72
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA01 10952 bytes
SHA-256: bb2f7a7f3b5aed84bc1a6432846289b1139e0bbbf2a8439840fc1355613e02bb
font_02_sfnt_off00011335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11335 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1