Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad97185e37a4f34a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:01:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2d2c5b376a22b16629910f33b64e45cc SHA-1: b560f337cf03d78adb5992d6fa66a411cf5226fa SHA-256: ad97185e37a4f34ae07c6c64a386ef5ecb6f358811f811d4bab9910b195461d6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tantos.jp/js/upload/files/vevufisebopi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/dalefitadaxogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1aade8452c0987d3425bb5b524dcaff/53300139476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/gotimasexikofajuburago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/robaxubarozanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c87c29d390---ponolamomanefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnlnnh9d3fs7olchdd3j1nm2pf/jepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100a15661be8---komiwejapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d6d58b31---49676911548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-20/20210720044645244908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/28225591118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogasiwidujipituwolozejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/799719b02de0b62b30288c3ee076bead/73716921477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd50bb0b6467db09e1c7e3aed00955f9/69466227530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/3892624123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f8f1559f3---95873326081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0001c7772798ef56f1a650e14ff33271/94649089700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32f5933ffff7a4d23972f189b3726ab7/79764953750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c92e2a8d7d37e973e7bc24fea34fc077/86500130408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d7e26069eadf6e13aa51b2cc96e642e/pafoviwuniguzosawoselediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a643053acb---kabetuputavimamelunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=garmin+striker+plus+4+manualPDF 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_off0000f770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F87 10604 bytes
SHA-256: b5ce39af37cc3f25eb59645625a79a1bb534a98b3981302df09186d5de00eecc
font_02_sfnt_off000127bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BF 17192 bytes
SHA-256: b38cc0361dd4d832ef0228739cec2a621cffc0514396b623bb1709f02c5ccd10