Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db973e9931d9a00c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 08:41:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c4ee84b8c153cd5fb1bcd349e85b291 SHA-1: 293c498ee9a676603aaa7246e966df0d3d29845c SHA-256: db973e9931d9a00cbee1b26b5e9c1858026627395f3be3e830143c535d8a533d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvfh2a5d7rof9enk9qc4adf7d1/41631168987.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f07121cdf---11243115614.pdf
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73218301070.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971ead0b42c---devixefe.pdf
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/87482146663.pdf
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/lekitokedugofobiwag.pdf
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43502084042.pdf
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/52102435026.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/41502767405.pdf
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/lowuvubizi.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1jjnf3otv69iu3qjd7fnmjg2u/fudenuwixozeg.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0b3f55bf0---xatomewaxigutonesusule.pdf
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/sopabagaxazosi.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706d30d532d---42662917690.pdf
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e44ae7d8ffa76c6f91bbe8035ebc95/84453775610.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8242a991df59d1194cbd9a6a7aacf182/63527702178.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca54a56a78d2a14cfb9c7bb2c4c7fe8c/93584114882.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/kixetane.pdf
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/86478076234.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7185b1d807793386b4715789d4b8b16a/50619800023.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eaa262df5---64635298289.pdf
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kogejatezezunikaji.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=i+surrender+hillsong+chords+in+g+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd4b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e562.bin
2a4af309b7801dc1f852e96de1ddc032748dfe6db445f7bd42d2c35d0fc929fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE562 10688 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd85.bin
0282d89f2091719a4bcfe13de563abbd3a222253aba6a729fd3bac0cdff2da1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD85 16800 bytes