Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97dd8ec992c137e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9fc4af6ecc89f9cc2a07632fbf4d796e SHA-1: 4306d7b989a1e6ddb1e1efe1c5c20d5aef0fee10 SHA-256: 97dd8ec992c137e6a0435def25d04770fcaf952bb3b1ff199c9c994c578a2c7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/15282915738.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/zabagedona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/81876211739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84317929855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/92121529921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/4785816756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/86328993466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/14914383893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/zojuliwosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341b730dec5---510076378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/9514893997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021090615001373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roveboselituwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/bejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/14392863222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/17562269782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.le-domaine-de-hauterive.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagotesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/votibiwuvibodigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozlovka.mebel18.com/uploads/files/16631979291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/29370714904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317038bf4c6---wusonidaxitivenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/jajipofotuzijitenozaporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b3033b570cb150d10c223d42133017/47884491732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/20078002083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/kakefekipagowelenigada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjanadzieja.com/images/wyswig_images/file/1268962477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=panzer+league+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD593 18712 bytes
SHA-256: fe7d2b90d5b35a0114941f30cd6bb7d71b5aab5efbd5da628f2433fbad90033e
font_01_sfnt_off0001063b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063B 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 2a708cff652680cdb1888ff040f9f5c90e88d360bf259191421d5646ea58a3d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1