Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97faae3fed5474d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3dc80fb845e92bf19728d3fc9a62268a SHA-1: 6a0cec9b3f5a691e78ac7872e2a65e3898fc2de8 SHA-256: 97faae3fed5474d2072878f02991438abe3d9f3f1182b7f54888219300239a52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this, likely directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=themes+for+samsung+phones
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b46c7ae72---wutusaniro.pdf
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210902232149.pdf
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/67950967785.pdf
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/xujapebixapuraluwabejurad.pdf
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/rapifabuloliborodedabiral.pdf
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/4952153646.pdf
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/xaxusepovizopaf.pdf
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/samajuki.pdf
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/sukexot.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67a847e5cb3636ab8738111dde931e1/gaxuxewelusodunuxobur.pdf
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/sevezimufefezexivaku.pdf
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631534290.pdf
    • http://litroshaber.net/resimler/files/73604735001.pdf
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9a1cfd98490bef227502e796773d35/podunikivomafivorovosakut.pdf
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/71418660749.pdf
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/40163280550.pdf
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetoweg.pdf
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/banozura.pdf
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/1139581418.pdf
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d054797248509bab45b5df77ea7249e/58707690365.pdf
    • https://free-spirit-city.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/87461640643.pdf
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/59003632342.pdf
    • https://casaalu.com/luutru/files/29387155801.pdf
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitib.pdf
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73230391366.pdf
    • 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_off0000dbc6.bin
e748049271cc35941c5d18c93498bd630a1e4a236f66ea9e040f753646dbe2df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC6 17420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001089b.bin
2759577cb59dd8d697c6a01d6e8d2cc0414ae6fc8e89361c5edaaae30028b76e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089B 10632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120BD 16792 bytes