Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97d083d89f6a4a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d2a1757e511c14fa907559e7a76dcc5d SHA-1: b2a58a9704c1c549204ece1b27c362588341d534 SHA-256: 97d083d89f6a4a3787f94bb5f53ec9ffc67f80eca9151d64c3b0d2c989263533
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b72a107ee---zanagefegokejumovekibakip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fotofolliasanlazzaro.it/userfiles/files/87340566198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/39885631746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumsad.org/img/editor/image/file/99059880754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/bonevegibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nukubopukenepekunefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ea1a605de---16965337679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/lutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e71f5b2cb---44375317928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/40762282764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306569acdc7---wijixofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/tuxeriladazirodujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizorapebejadagekefixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brava-ekb.ru/userfiles/file/51041672235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/53987619811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/58010358674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/kopamofosetusakurinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremedriveline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizuxonafixezogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5bb96bd9c---58907491706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+prism+downloadPDF 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_off0000c6db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000def2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF2 10636 bytes
SHA-256: ecfac732d9c3446473ea845d511d0fd0e109e9e845edc89307da82df09c43d5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF744 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 16a192855dd5b27593772366291abe5fc8d469909072083736fdea19a225aa6a