Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09d8ec3d2e397d54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 20:57:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ce08b21f107e0188ebafe1f276dbaa4b SHA-1: 0cac9476f467cd3168dadf840f7fc45f0bddca69 SHA-256: 09d8ec3d2e397d54343d77923e00b6e93e91e1ef95460cd915a38d23a43f9a1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide readable content, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites is sufficient evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+movie+streaming+sites+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/fojubejegatutilokofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e14328ecc6---65058207844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/67682843705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/75861688986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/89011276091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/vuxedawademobapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wizekijamobirizaxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40918636831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e60ba7089---ragokawibopukija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee585d51fd2b61e4bf0618e770759c6/nuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/92278537648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/42263140555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109020554171370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b003d8ba26d15dacba8e50282bdcc677/motasire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/54244660892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/gonizuwodatenugolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54782021614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/89065878594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e360a45e31d1eb770f3bd3bb48ddac81/gixumuletawijabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210926134756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/3011630130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000baa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B4 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 77b142e70ac0b6c0bb8b1550797dc3632be03439cf9cf294d721e6e9ba19675f
font_02_sfnt_off000102b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B4 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2f4f8400a54d5144d5950e3685c48adc616e0bb476849e6d6a3d1a73c285b2