Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09e94defc7092726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4ed00f37a7b6ddf63676e44048240847 SHA-1: 73025ab4d4d79c89115b8de2596c19e6a4e6c0a1 SHA-256: 09e94defc7092726d5f71b17442737e257791cc0b01ec9f8edb882049eaa98e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or malware downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+of+comparing+numbers PDF link annotation
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e00a1ae25df247564c5e353dd28fcf0/32317307686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/kobobaxubadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d6c346d22---texamafakuxuriki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd0869eaab7a05e86edf195ff7ef42c/geloxuguzazufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af6a7d507797317fab99a59897f6a97/66413821366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/sowanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/doxozoragigibegonejarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/721f0ca6e4fc9d8c353e0b1d1d6d10f6/26738062941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7abbfad32d26d66e883fe5f24996ac7/98436140951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/228777325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28b2061bc1---botofagasekawaderoruxitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f09ece7a8---wovunumobolaxesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083236cc5dee---14524093756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/39901849090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b895bc8ee08---kamokevofimiwodasawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c13aa8b6a9707f36da403ce70532e30/porelexuguxekoz.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48C 16496 bytes
SHA-256: daa98c29c73c2f45a7a9dedc65b95b74c8c001db38db1979f53400da7cb4e7e6
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF64 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2c41d181f882ab2cb4172aa4a93bfef6ac21f597c2edb54d1242725594c724
font_03_sfnt_off00011948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11948 1724 bytes
SHA-256: 19ad4517c29b5c36bf794e26b3715f4e7bd8cd52f31a72de5134329916a99b4a