Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e977065952b756b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-16 03:34:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b94057782660d7563dbb3d79d6f8bcda SHA-1: 2a6851c3288ba79fa0cc4dd927630ee373301ba5 SHA-256: e977065952b756b6df5d095b8ea464139f91cef5da21adb326308f39ac37094c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a compromised WordPress site, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link farm heuristic and the presence of external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2723109fbf---88708868489.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4177800033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/sotozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/82213352560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09b4htdtlgj0ot8dqhpo3h4b7/pakosinebejobakixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e71a061f53---47851696596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/99687072934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46980087431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bf66f0a38e78b36ee3f3bcd2a94ff6/liruderisupokemadaludupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/77826049489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85ad9ce16f4302319b2b9127504b10c9/tufemuzagolulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d226d859d9---95915015224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1d0dc8add948ad8d822216865ce407/79279272384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3951afe0e691c03eb43fad76d721825/fusawakujorivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292mtdugkgv6pm25lq0931e7fu/6623182318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/jopapapawazuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/92330230996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/7574289855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/dudonuvurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9c3208f4be1336dd0e66c2987d45a5/simivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///59880416381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmhomeschool.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/milobipinaxuxururajupinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde281187311e57ace3088cd8653ea71/nepukizomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/juzamamoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=go+toubun+no+hanayome+capitulo+6+sub+espa%C3%B1ol+temporada+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D9 18028 bytes
SHA-256: b0ec53d569873c48d4b41de717778ba4fbc96f2246e654161f1596afcd50d1c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF734 11664 bytes
SHA-256: 024fcf4f7175fa7d3d571cadf75b3db40eb6b5a8c6a73006011f44038ef10752
font_02_sfnt_off00011260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11260 2992 bytes
SHA-256: b9b10ed738c83de0e1905d5d02de2f444f227cc25f5c23aaff4dffdb0c603836
font_03_sfnt_off00011ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1