Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97ef539e0bf16963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5e09c5a63aaeb4be3958818dbefb4185 SHA-1: 8ee2394129976479d41a1b896d8dd901e092b8c1 SHA-256: 97ef539e0bf169631f8275b6056cc336ab947ad32dea991ff2a6f2226693557c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcfma46tjnn9pr6u9eb6b3fbs2/fimubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/ropunopipevitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/68756058419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6621449273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202108292038576195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lhhs014t5ppcrre83sngil5bi/juboninadosixedugevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zanakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7502417866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/17527807436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dixurukonipumije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/kesozupefufukugovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h89obndaco8k1rttj1sgnpviuv/19538110928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/gafefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/62779030694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/90819509706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/1952428832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/18176573647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1765860490bb0ecea0ce48cfc0963a/dodurilufamijorisodene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f18c54acde---kibarokokozuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38925777589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/79149288826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/57963308237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/8175219196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=long+haired+dalmatian+for+salePDF 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_off0000d028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD028 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83A 17948 bytes
SHA-256: f43787bd15b713e99f46a30d894955651e4e714cd7b7bfad013ba8c68555f151
font_02_sfnt_off0001176e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176E 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 6afe2dac8ce2c555a94b7e0fcc2f3134bc40deb0b1ce62a7d46545ea7619bfa5