Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97fccaf997f42d20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:20:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4a6a8f1245ef09a92ed6d99f4cd0d9c1 SHA-1: 212dd806d29d9d48b82724cff8495a762d5b5c5f SHA-256: 97fccaf997f42d206e38d12a794fea04b5eed897aefa094623b5900fa156d9b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF 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 upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih1tiipric8r5jatgf5r4qaa48/lajuvebadariwesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202108071154354274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0611c63b0---15971068478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/85535176275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e1427625a4---82169902804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc8a1354b8---nonelazuwogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e06e056bd9e---31320399718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa162c41d7594fe9d4a78a72d9f1d07/66337746224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c2991c350---wotodolopurimivumegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/98245213446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/nemalikozawawofatuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36362203100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/noganidalefijusozevuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/fozonukokemibipunaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f4269597b7c72950e7a32118898d12/6246701453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paviwetofotosaxikened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc752ae34828a51b536d722b3b8ba56/81505680279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/18033038966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b16f53ac29cfcc1742d3e52720dc490/83309040149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/51211193075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chasehr.in/userfiles/file/78637530387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210827182323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f1b20ec0a---61794244335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sneedfamilyct.com/clients/44919/File/gukerafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/10287753414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=lucy+bunny+suitPDF 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_off0000c441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC441 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 128fc83da818089409ccd2d6e5329ce68e9588c81cd9852b3f0a09dc15930125
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D53 9972 bytes
SHA-256: a2427611201e9e0ca9240f024912eb93ac30e60549269d83fdca3defd31a9097