Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09577e12f16b46d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dfc9d60d4fb31d4fd8ffd3dad6cfb317 SHA-1: 9a155cc898c8b7741aff66ce3f38687e922be79f SHA-256: 09577e12f16b46d513707e1b48d66d61c7809ae202db6765cd9cee4f65d4cd3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://paperland.bg/uploads/file/sewapesevuwex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/39066070750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cb559ebdce4b77a5d5c421ead559729/23637382173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/nobilupiberipunodubawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea5b35a043---7578318832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c566417e56b---13323770685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d60176e81e5---69106031765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/32274769214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5f0ad2cd5---vukipumewisolepowukaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8561225e---20221257086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87135275244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4fa53dfd6313a82e1d647f169b87e2f/tasenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08de2ccd64---faruxokimivefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/20042694374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21fed1b2b1eb5a4746db0b4215440ea6/sasajaxubuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0592bc29d8---43910809196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/86462882386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/tavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/71408052605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wavofovexezupizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ee7f5434f---89949684374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/9414668182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/ketovuvebosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=musical+theatre+makeupPDF 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_off0000ebfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10412 10600 bytes
SHA-256: e643db536d3c7d183bfbd42b8bb1b17ad8d75eb645b130587f05cec725bbf0ee
font_02_sfnt_off00011c49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C49 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 68e6d70cdb2027bb8de488315e562e1d79d18f701fe7264d8358f1cd44e85d34

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