Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09722a79f25385db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 06:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ea9519f7b98157f70e227933a4d3dd87 SHA-1: 80a3be54821666f4ea9c8f11732479e8a29798d7 SHA-256: 09722a79f25385dbb6111e53152fa4d8bf3c156466c8e49f9ce16cdfeae00aa1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on a variety of domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://kede.org/userfiles/file/taxuxemetow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///73006716408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/pokowegidupefibufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/zikazozumibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j5ek61n7n3ke8v6mhp4omldus/nidawusapirugizupute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b14b407050b3a82ceef29a30e37f5e/zorubozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/66122899097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/94406706219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8845c17bde---65516445849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920da12f6a0---dagisevasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093061ead78b---remukibobifewuwojoladev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f18330167388cfbce7e2bf25183444/gitajupufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/duxuvamifukokejikufatuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608525d940416---wefuviwazopurigewineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745621ca9e1---kuwudowulutijabepadiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/081808107598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/13651951923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/19294443073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/76108219963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/45021948301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/noxiruzutedadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1e2ccedf9---devuzegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e248f8fb79078cdae48f930072b229e3/tanewagapimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c933d7b2b---61620355631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/41837255665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2+yr+oldPDF 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_off00012dd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD1 9624 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1b9858486fb44c46968f7bdcc05f27c73a3efce967602f52add897ef619364
font_01_sfnt_off000142c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C0 17536 bytes
SHA-256: f9c7d6fb6ca893010c7720b9f796e1e6c73fb3bf55207ef0e815f34bf492f717
font_02_sfnt_off000170e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1