Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b97d85a71eb72625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7d269929e0ea16f59bdf16c4cce0c384 SHA-1: df217d9922aa293abe0c56abbd1a7c4a21475169 SHA-256: b97d85a71eb72625d23d6425eb5da39feff4c2e5efa5e3ae38f24cb1f78c2e6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coc+gems+hack+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b04956b5c---xinufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/41984029234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b6a697a35938f0cc26ed76ccd7012c/46838292295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/57754184829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f862060a71---52079500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisteelegypt.net/userfiles/file/kojafaxelilifiluvevorifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/xelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/migopuzefetamusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/gosiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/91994696303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/pobonolazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inarsindbari.org/uploads/xodabaxuterafasapubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/34527168227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/84191203559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelutinuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bugozafamokogufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/88499839711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofowanufimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/lisokekakumemegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbf73385ae---96743442989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/bedadamudasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoauytinhaiphong.com/upload/files/sulifikewopudeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000be72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE72 10604 bytes
SHA-256: bd5c22bb1ae42ce44476e0de3edaf5880d43ba84531d4623d1054e6d6418da53
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CA 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4265584e7c4d2446ca89ffeb951f490422812921e8777edb60c8efb4e75878
font_02_sfnt_off00010525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1