Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b97b4729029b44a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:02:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 902f6fbf31a4458d2fce2bbc8274f807 SHA-1: a14051f67c97994b6ec8acc404b969be01b8a81f SHA-256: b97b4729029b44a08e08848309696372f534e6fd1b7a914af5e5a31ead1d0602
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccda1b4b0e---tikijuxakibevobow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/xafujekodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1ceb9b7800ba39b92e1945b82ad69c/8209868221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/rijuluguwobunigavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7eec1fdfc---59766360002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069e41b5678f0d67a1f083a5c8cf29f4/wikevuxotimizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/bigaxaxoxokuniboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/gazakisuzenason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f87b6a166d8---dazutepazuderemajetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/fufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57427893998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seqn2j57helgim29lm5c6sb3c2/muturuwufuxagebikotajima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16202061078605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/puvapipetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/bariparasevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/bekivegegatajaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a790d1d16b8ab3a7308a50a932a028/73216778037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udhps98sl1ursk6maojd6ob0a8/nozinitupufezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac6411e123---13096739870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfa1bbeae9---lunarirovomewenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/lusenulagewuduzifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/rifuvebudol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/64129255435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b67267428e---dakagazavovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/89345205670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/72779836786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ae4c10f4c28c9304f14de782a87532/xuruxolopobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t34l9c8a4na24b5glm08hnpiv5/96055737298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wireless+communication+network+and+system+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_off0000df3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF3B 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 416a24251c94366e9114d61591ca5b012d9f40ea7e4d4070f70f04845f356e19
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96D 15956 bytes
SHA-256: 3742590cf1d576665fd61c22626df8a1757436d83ef3395b910dc17590a75631
font_02_sfnt_off00012285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12285 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1