Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09d0b75131323d5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:36:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 67ebf05eeee842ab39fd241166cd780a SHA-1: fca5434f4f5d1df96572fca84e4a39f6fba5af45 SHA-256: 09d0b75131323d5ab313a803cfa67f4f2b8cf384fd6f07c82c4cbc2adcabebe5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicated by multiple heuristics including 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' and the ML classifier output of 0.992158 strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782ce9f2530---23511211739.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/budetasawowigipodibenovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080758c3ab5f---kitedupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/belitozadigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/doxabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/xudigapatekewudizewiruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62qtsug87b31rndnb6iio3pgmv/rixubazizugewulabubixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974f843a70d---72276875018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/linuwoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bb8e80f44---suzevajotevotusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/55026099150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/76439392787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a7924c5c5---wanamawezuketib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e9975d02d6ccc0c193f433da0cb950/44243756086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/60406826205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/85637084738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860f7cf3725---60243238447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi9kp97ck1rif7i929j38gmeii/gosolapapolizetuvejuwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768c49ade4---43709280907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4915eb019---vikibexafiboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4512c26bb24540b64123f9240c4a7b30/bafudasusosige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05cbc10e1e---wubefixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094903111de8---75399799063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/lasibufifobuguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=raj+sub+inspector+previous+year+question+papers+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6B 16696 bytes
SHA-256: f2333988fc20743cae1a9f9d21d461b109185e0937f5919f1b106eead2f116af
font_01_sfnt_off000108e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E7 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 053b539d79a6ba3fbbd017addbcddd4eeabf3a0a93dd4ed0d2f4401938d5080c
font_02_sfnt_off000123b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013bc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC2 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd