Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b97a463fcf5a1cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 14:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7fc9d94b2ddfe8b3f86dfc512db30788 SHA-1: 7cad6f26b840e5ef48aa33468535ad135c8f7527 SHA-256: b97a463fcf5a1ceaad16271862601473eb6467474459f74dcdb2c3ee69d03b36
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and ClamAV detection strongly indicates malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0309587d33---9933587037.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/90349077401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1887ac52b2ab1d9d3b3b52504bc1ded/30373637543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760dad1a352---66502071128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakiwixesugiwakiravaneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb33219f04---60545377524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/26074635048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520074238609642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210628214307_598543489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27df59432191c6077e95e705fba6b13d/kanumuruxijavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/fuxepufobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laahmnl8gksokv08spto7i1ffo/74644715384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/79013983003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2029232f30d9e7a63e7de0eae92b32/23799879493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bea763bda---nirapaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/gevinutekatonaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aece5245e38c956149303090d2a06005/mosulonoxowudoguful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrt758a4ua3sql76mlvcv2k7nq/guduxoxasudiwufutawaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/22938068473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d43tmekjjee58jnnaaacq266/vutode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/60107076500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6bdee9f48---sineto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/32520471955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/kinazogufisabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=codashop+ml+premium+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000ea07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001021e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021E 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 100906e90560f9092e9931ddf926732fd8a822cf5fe616928c05cb07e222df94
font_02_sfnt_off00011a83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A83 17140 bytes
SHA-256: bd8024dccf265d08ab39a8aa0f64e0a64331b44338369e7eeedab45256470e52