Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97fbd6e5ae72b78d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 24e44eec29d7bccf3040839b6624ac7d SHA-1: 75cf27b0d61a1e8a7ec1bd0577506ca37354c22e SHA-256: 97fbd6e5ae72b78d92e96cd525b5aa63a5f241a1bde003c94edfcd734ea4f2a9
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/61138734650.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/kixugabigoredaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dudakoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/toredegutisoxeluveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/wurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/22123821819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/gilojaginupabironu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba5f2c6e9a---96401909171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/terejosajawixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aboadp058n0qjbn0enbs5sgv1/lemisezubomogusirogero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelebirusopeluwefasijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/19068434879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bilodozimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/80321767822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejewunizabaxurovujaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45132362064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teledirk.com/d/files/63425218685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/73075829597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/poguvudujokitutawejumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://321eastern-thailand.com/userfiles/files/10537435203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/tederetanefukoretupibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/zamebejavuvidekorebumaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634d51d46428ae94858a750393e3db5c/26705244377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=photomath+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001017b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017B 10440 bytes
SHA-256: b8ce7e45f5bd65444ed4eca9faaa20d81a983f0220d5c3f21bb0fd21cc017d92
font_02_sfnt_off000118fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FA 20348 bytes
SHA-256: eaece79f3677cdef801b529946f302e0d90516f9237ccc538cbb19124cf19cf0