Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97e9f133f02b6fdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6da51e1a9e64723a4578b360d6196e7c SHA-1: 1c4727dbd48160e0878b531431732fe1aca16d61 SHA-256: 97e9f133f02b6fdd7a7b61bbae5d9d43781f03bb0973b752c104ca43b462050c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and the ML classifier also indicated maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://anindecor.pl/files/file/17627298668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf20060afb1---57424397638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/55013998166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/fimegawejaziwegejoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n9rok7lrii2e01nm5rgqnrdi6/riwowaluzuzekabudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/solonixunaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/vajajikamelakiponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f29a48423---lifemesojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shield-in.com/userfiles/files/86457403385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4bajt5odnui5gcq1p222dnmf5/22282067507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdefaf4c38a---96328586431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/97627647006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7480722f992157bf05a4714628c56fdc/gogixewivomasejapawimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42659048080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veivel.com/userfiles/file/44691770794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077acde9eab8---27075004156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0362c1b78---7439794527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongkhomica.com/upload/files/vuwopisixatefufebufolizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/papepopamogobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/fozonebetufufotiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/10922303447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6db61672fb9cb5a70a0dc0187f2702/liravowonozodubegumolofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/28697421180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/58071768325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/51221420268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=short+haircuts+for+oval+facesPDF 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_off0000e049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE049 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 29bb6358648817e10b43c7e3a91855bc164bc2219cd2a734c707c01043ce6928
font_01_sfnt_off0000f894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 17516 bytes
SHA-256: be869aa4ae9baf3d8cc307c2101fe5ca109c58070bf57ba33bfb98c693a351eb
font_02_sfnt_off000125ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1