Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97e0108adf17d2ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 13:21:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d0523be03fe03a79eb8d6ef303f269a5 SHA-1: b5fe02c143edbe87a664abf18e04913a0a2000a8 SHA-256: 97e0108adf17d2ead16da2451d4afbde37721d8f2e6ba3e4127630fef1949b36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, specifically pointing to formcraft plugin upload directories. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081922d4a2f5---jodesijaromu.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c7ca331cd---sazilubirik.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dea822a19---44514705999.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/69914129654.pdf
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/76643841761.pdf
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a11e15978f---tusoviketosapimowit.pdf
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/44030972052.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607751e31f38a---72265890060.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e9385ad9d9e64195f93a0683acdef9/ravixibazenukarufoj.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4be02899a---9278867942.pdf
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/07/06/file/20210706_080907_129.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe1d35b968208cd9679f7e81e779430/kuradofupaxigatim.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf92q6b6j5c90ej1sveapc1351/7983499376.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501045531291719.pdf
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbd137ff82d0d927e1f8d01cfba2f891/60635858538.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a36bb38848aec1b5c9a39da3a8054f/10620985630.pdf
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd4bd020be9a5b187f99714cefaf0075/1399760442.pdf
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d25e4f3c812148d432698a8c9d897a/74325162253.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hse3da41lbj3avbk9hove41tcs/wufiwuloxenu.pdf
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/deluvigifegikipozabat.pdf
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/20932844254.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ce72ed834---gufili.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc09797cfe5---25273379824.pdf
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/getevesenewufitemodo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=marriage+anniversary+poem+for+wife
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101f0.bin
2d869851d248c29340238506b81508f204f20823016e6bc37b00fab95c2c07aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F0 17008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012e22.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E22 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014639.bin
740f79f29d17da12a1244bb287707b6cca8728e045304a3fcc407e0e294155d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14639 10816 bytes