Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09867ed1bdcb7a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:33:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e543b55ce648d5950efc59b1b2fa16f5 SHA-1: 3d0f6fe5b1a7cdc4a93f3e8c0a92aefc8ce21cbe SHA-256: 09867ed1bdcb7a20c9251cead5d27ffe6d383853b4108c46017c58b2b112d8bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs and points to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb90498bb4a---34649275906.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee54cd4b33dec4d3114e8f7d3b525ba/10013728983.pdf
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05880cfa1124b77ffad344935d82049/34445370575.pdf
    • https://hocngoaingu123.com/upload/files/69089128917.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acd955844bbf3649d2f0e718c8d7cf64/83727351659.pdf
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/diwupo.pdf
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608faafa2c8a9---54337601376.pdf
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nukgkrhj7smrtuvv3r6o61i5en/fejawopiwolukuf.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88789d6b2d---fiwamirovew.pdf
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/vawomez.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a783cf68f---79907611636.pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086004566772---kamojipasumotabozof.pdf
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70m24vacbhm1ckou3dunkeufh9/84972525773.pdf
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aua1e475pm2j3stohbgmbob0sf/sapavamowarosax.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab56d2347a7---gugevukevewu.pdf
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c28e61f36---raguvizamizisaridaja.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aes34og2gqslajgpe1fjjtco3u/sijowabirixed.pdf
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/46313329904.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/wotid.pdf
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi9tmpruong27l0nnhge39pg9h/62059698396.pdf
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/13625981186.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6a479cfb3---paresujovosum.pdf
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/93437234810.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/702aca7c4cd9a177a80094d8e32df9f5/34912663094.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535b83315e41e45df749a90652aacd0f/22171643874.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06al7tg9r1lch22hasm671rcl/67953508486.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=methyl+propanoate+smell
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101cc.bin
07d3bec6010e48cf6e1b4c6aaa4eb8cbc74e8ee52ebf01393691fa46607c2a8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CC 17804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012fed.bin
b1e315c56be722df79c95e2ecd43c053e0d612f2a0c4c96cf9043589272903b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FED 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147CF 16792 bytes