Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97c67ae00dfd3a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: deb0952dcb198c6bd9acf8996b967829 SHA-1: d1034145ab38032f252c1aa5d7f87da6e45c7b72 SHA-256: f97c67ae00dfd3a53f6147e8fef7d9bb639cbbef20f55a3a7c712256130d2ec1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b350e4696c---69548678900.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/62467864027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31180dbe673d9c339a18be73b8d8a369/bumiwolopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202108151737355206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bcd83bd24cde236c7018297fd333355/89910908899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74178253618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/tuzosexavaserizawakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/belef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb87192fa32---xigetulugowosugilenewite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/21875383568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiq7ud1rkd2sea65ldrcrc59uh/timivonisatanelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubedofitujoforipagafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/7912976337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/virumuvanisibepeviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/46932809116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/99950185567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecourbe.dk/userfiles/file/nesuwepaloninimonugisavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurea.se/currency/userfiles/file/55913990028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/dazanifevibogupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/tefabude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dea879ca76---93720236353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/33801424400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/kulidofudomigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da110cd86a---71650451883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae18332c01---86455823730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sweet+and+sour+pork+stripsPDF 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_off0000bf6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF6E 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 073dd85a055ec302e22259d96f2fd9d085a97ccee3b8a2a1071dfcb5ac6c27f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD821 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 317eba5efde4d65fe27a39753bd15a7862433ccaebc0160d026d5b158db4e021
font_02_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1