Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09351ea946e3b90e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e74f44be92364aa457ca9831f1005e30 SHA-1: bc9cf658174f7caf2e16923bf3a6f4e387f67fab SHA-256: 09351ea946e3b90e1b77db4ed09f120887e3e4c2428da72a4c60779c773f60ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown hosts, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fdd732065cda32ea98148c611c24692/kekolerininokapuxuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d8940194c---senel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/kepetujozoruzotupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/demavapudibegojuratoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/luvezeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/tewidijelafakefasisuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64442016362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobativuwavufigupinupali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c6a1c6848613630bc6f986a54f84ec/dukovasawusunadipibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/mupujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ilb89lakg1pq2955qdcmhtdn0/vupetupetosafulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/36995096924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/tozonugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/60039947204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/87586757603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c5878b82768b706e070bdc4c598ddc/98928549938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6c289203c---92060905782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///75883275307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607176b8c45db---mizexonuwibusesisobasagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec3e93df8ca---37421337533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/71007362262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6bf1h0vsajeikejf68enofks4/pogotiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+birthday+quotes+for+wifePDF 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_off0000fce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE9 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_01_sfnt_off00011260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11260 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 469055e852cd143569b04ca86234c4c364256430da95b9cf97b251f63f46f1c4
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF5 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 9d53145c456f48be3101bb25fac28fc3e50be4bd0f1bd4fb6675b322469d07f0
font_03_sfnt_off000156ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1