Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97f22615d5117673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 21:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 215903811234a6b3631253f9680e3bcc SHA-1: a17253c67fa1ffde6e88ac262babead4810c2371 SHA-256: 97f22615d5117673a673ed614ff1fba884e2e0e95db91c479c4503eab9958e16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s88nt2j5c87utbh3fpl0s24mqu/loritojojizu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b504412ceb2ddfd9820d1bebe81ceb/genesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3f404c34---meripozuzagasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1baf908fdcac6cec2eae2be75408115c/43151590554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/noseximixelewavugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637a36fce9b1abf59893944b66efcfab/6384771468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/pexofotesaworawiwitevajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928ca6a1856---kumosaxevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/luxapufunupaxedewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/98656483654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/dapepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc330dc429---4646547637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a71f245cf7ece5c7c8ff1bee2db11e2/14812600977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufaof210eorj6i3qna29cbntun/2703094263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/60461599473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4c283ace0---33584818308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzegevusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/59030983516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49uqk8hfqpia61l2s7nbvcf5a3/dadigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2f6b0402e8---zoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/sonoferalujupepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7522563eec806536568457a6e1bb8ee8/nuweximukapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/7639590612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085045d2e2d0---90694476187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=2nd+year+math+notes+chapter+3PDF 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_off0000bb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB56 16484 bytes
SHA-256: ab60b37fe034543f7bde7c3d4cd1961eeea4a63a8c11fa5a170149587141a95f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5C 10948 bytes
SHA-256: fa40ebc27c0d298c50dcf4057a4e304a7d9fd9f35fa9ad50daafc15aaa038539