Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a97f2698ff6fdf1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 09:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 890887aad136500e53fb232d2f719612 SHA-1: 8e61057c1c6ee1695cf2d59d630f76a8cdb2215f SHA-256: a97f2698ff6fdf1e5fdb43cd13c3836923390f5675123a2a834387ee0664e7f9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • 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 http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzunivonowakiwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/pivawiverema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799e018b663---69737166519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/80938143191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/medivulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/16952252181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f72cab133e---zewojapifebapepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa10ae4dec---zagidoxoropuwomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdi07nq2epa2f0ll8dvc4fdss7/lajuraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7348ad2415e9cf61d17e60c6c2edf3d/72125483359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/zerafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/85511457236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f2d0d705dbf84426d2ef1c8cdad2c5/zuvufogavumavawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l0n8m888bkrrcko9qd61i3lep/96177142935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3948bd2556130e5ee3df8b831f03137/37006600990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/66415319524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/bowisopusuxogomimuwoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/wigoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/99111285460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d98f0d40---rejamadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/kobuxujesupalirovunemugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/71707072472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210717081318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehero88vip.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/betodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/86792525891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=horngren%27s+accounting+10th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off00011566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11566 11152 bytes
SHA-256: ef284e557c1642e5a6a0a1e18146a4ab0bc4de540d98e2675a0a5fcb312473c5
font_01_sfnt_off00012f44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F44 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 0969ab2f25faf5151cf8aaa8a255f59bbd10e7cebff7d610d8ee060e9e51e3ec
font_02_sfnt_off00015dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1