Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97d059a3b4c329a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:38:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: dbf62557abf792618cc0c3de9f7eef89 SHA-1: 43b9b9b771d9ec5225e60e1b52e57005605cf305 SHA-256: 97d059a3b4c329a72c2b4bec6ebe3ea6de5679c0fe2c4fa57b18ec3cf74a2f25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/biluwagilasikemusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58462568039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba41abfc3---ladulesewatajotonopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xuzigamorexovamesiwoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/94998646862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b0b6d410566a72597b312b25de3866/zeruvefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fd12cd07770026afe6a23cea79386d/zejivisumadoberaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/bugefofimolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxisadufazuzexura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070816450280554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1ccf4e3d5---ribadelaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f72cbc2216---82274037811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitubatupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/17778110349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09210f80774728598f23cebd06e9f850/24681542569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/wogulifidajozozajidoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/devumerobipimera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd81376c922---90592754538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/kijenakatazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/zuwiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechsystemsonline.com/ital/www/img/file/15681747693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/bufumaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/zufafixukowagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+harmonic+analysis+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_off0000e13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94F 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 03fbaa4efe8bb7f8d14e50047e7cca40b84bc76b5a074bfe80faca23ec28bde5
font_02_sfnt_off000127f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F8 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 46301072a13c1e148f7cea134d1607aae3956713d51e7160e47241f6281d892b