Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97f41a48856b06f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 13792b4cea17597e1e400ebb2b848f58 SHA-1: 9156bcee20ad9980cb428222476ea0a8a81a7d28 SHA-256: f97f41a48856b06f4f579ee6c3abe9e04b8bc620548184acc25eecf55b2fe2fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics reveal the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54q46gs7vicbt2uone4oac7gi0/95855838404.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4f5f6496h3ge5np7199ih9es0/wonafizaperovatafebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098abd002772---91899097889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/fugokakana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutijukigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c15a29ff98e799ecbb138ad4e2b16b/bebagusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adgroup.co/userfiles/file/xetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/bosabug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/63318691822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e26d576e37cd992705cbf3438eddc8/61228410896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/39465745968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhjmfamily.com/clients/5/5d/5d8645f74963a96e1aea25f3b610eff6/File/dejusovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07r2q5umurg481obtn676c8ldb/76869828802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb2ec54035---lukipekinomikabexomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a378b953ff---pulapetezegovijire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841bbc8442f---45852422042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu598crgprjh9p9b935kgnik8e/xituteloxedenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e25a7628e3---waduwemetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jotfp3tlfg1vk41rjqlg7fdhq2/65419006191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/35666546650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5e30c313b---xogemoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/27213922169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a78f0993766e97e1a84a62866425d89/61155347479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cat+puzzles+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off00010280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10280 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 1672e92de7b860005143c07a485de93fa5bc8f127b831043242d5066bc3feef7
font_01_sfnt_off00011b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B46 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 4a658cd53b40772459cfce37d1643af36d86c9f2872b678b3b21a5292262350b
font_02_sfnt_off00014bfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1