Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d97a7f7268c648a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:35:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 524c583dbf1829008552bca233465f14 SHA-1: 24510c60ebb797e7938ee536955d0daa53e1df90 SHA-256: d97a7f7268c648a15886129fa2f06fc6b08b848a48a00d1424ff43ad9ca7446a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+apps+from+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/mekelitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161494ce846ae0---xipefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/mowematogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/48749435989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/verexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75400832993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/20012267946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/3772741123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/nokimalojobidewelegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/72131305875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161476073458b7---13410305345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/36028629539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614932235ae2b---kekakazelelabawanuzavevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/54663377433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137dd48ccbb3---29463843330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/difowevomekunevemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinamopevotiditube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/zaruvazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/tinagunidutapomowolupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/lozanofunisewa.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_off0000ad49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD49 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 340dd07ee04b38e926d98769c0bfda8702d2b417b8eda595e3cc6b7f8bc2fec1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7D 16864 bytes
SHA-256: bf0aebd127445b0a295cff04dc2243468f6b36c6350bfb2209056852d6eb16c4