Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97eb4ff39787dbad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e8e7e09f8246273d526d287cf6500897 SHA-1: 9c1872f745b483018790da2f40295eeb708be622 SHA-256: 97eb4ff39787dbad6b131632c0ea61d9f5c1bf8752e72325aa3eb02a2003981a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not directly indicate a specific malware family, hence 'unknown family' is used.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210605_18264C87963837DD.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74ff97351---mofewir.pdf
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/43385288811.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5fb041e553---42781768789.pdf
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/tedarawozakatoxutakodiv.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609617829563b---83339886072.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/9028699081.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b180c870c99---46397635291.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0858bcdf4d---54497106811.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhuf1dacjlksiktdc6v3k7gvl7/vifakisududubinokuwas.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/davenefaz.pdf
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/tupel.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7f9236acb384ad6fd47861e30e9831/zokusekenurukarafuxidibos.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lmnb38cmn3pvn2bv2mlvm4a47/1720518346.pdf
    • http://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/86306693302.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d79cc0690---29476283957.pdf
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/tatazopevodoki.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d219dfc09fb---48837877338.pdf
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/nekekiburesasumiwigazinir.pdf
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/tezubozek.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47rbnsggg9dqhb2k0nqi1qoeuf/41009580677.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a68403c7---vejoforo.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba0ddc5be01b2f179a71f6bb1c08a76/70247271879.pdf
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasupakamajege.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+discrete+and+continuous+probability+distributions
    • 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_off0000e120.bin
31b316ae50b46173a3185bc1c0e6f5f493f3968940384e213085fa2425d4e19f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE120 18228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001116b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012982.bin
36a42bb1cad4d1bd34d0560f5a871b16db7292b45cf05c9e8ae20267b818689b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12982 11148 bytes