Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 009ed2a6e1dd8323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 08:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 21bc7aa2aff5ff005c0b38cf7391adb2 SHA-1: fb1fbf1ec31873ba3941ff999ea9887d97ae5b0e SHA-256: 009ed2a6e1dd8323371521f118c47044d66cd338ea2327fbf2a43dfa0ba89db6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modern+period+composers PDF link annotation
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff7e4644b6---85210905106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/97912300828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/pigolemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/47522492311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07050b2c596ae983b9d83092682a1506/20195166098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo417k2ont3jt67kj3i1pa6o3t/sexenuvimipanotimotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/6871818227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/84810937853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/46204699498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/falowuxinesiduvorujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff4b6bcf1c---diwozaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/ranunitadudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1624626830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/46175281370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/8576363089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/30648568909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210501150104200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e036e88f42---bikutatuwikibixofimuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa33a3dc897---zasiwuwufajiwolikejosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9cvt8blu04tr0k51ntg85o0ab/9485556740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a0ca26ad5c35e9fd3b7d1f4644576c/ruvuvilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfeotgqm2r21en4g97u1onkfto/60940664581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8200dbccfd2efb49f5df187725ec7a23/jugilixitadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/72204168834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82374f5687a308766ac9fdbb1008b96b/duzugokilogaxu.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_off000107df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF6 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0774b96e892196c4e623235ad00b4fddb7dacf914b87a7d698cdb963edd9df
font_02_sfnt_off0001373f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1373F 18016 bytes
SHA-256: a1ae32b00505c659beb149846a4adb28802d85ee409cf67f01734e571309b4a1