Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97ee7a3d49578071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 14:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 74e71ad1e461bdfccea87eb22c956f3d SHA-1: 0a8780b423e5b8f8100cb0cdff7fd8e344846cda SHA-256: 97ee7a3d4957807160879265c13ce4a73ace15adb8842c29134150bf30bd6273
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'free download' lure in the document body, combined with the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing campaign aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+songs+of+kabir+singh PDF link annotation
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac63978de2---96534151802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608718c88e01b---romozopimudipulumonofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b9eb6b92f---tirujizoxunijarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/89015342408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15df7aa342---wamukobofofovuxigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/didizigikudadokidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9efb2a418---6951322988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/degux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/20212183943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e4ed740a---gowizupuridiretamukanowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/wisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4897bfdf8e12e954d154e457e7da57/pevekovokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/84698186455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff16b1727---sipajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b05f531bc---33424333723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/badezatajatofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/9899414722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D4 5420 bytes
SHA-256: a74c6a60711990ffd3b2b29453e63bc03c697a53dde0bcde8393991a553831ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB54 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 16bfbb2c702fa5f1467c153a8716130e98cbc5a5eefbfb4fc83ac290b9fb9e5d