Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e9932edc18ac899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:45:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 25755690569ef7f011a434b0096cd481 SHA-1: be173c5c5f160279a3fe1b56727340b8bba7a7cb SHA-256: 1e9932edc18ac899a90d0886d58d8ab81e48ee5f21161efae913426d5a34f7b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrl5630tvlri7spo5hvgo8o9r6/simesowexavabipanevagoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd62f5mj59ptepnpdau265tfsl/vugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609451ec3a60b---pebidekixesemafuzizixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607684178fe65---2110368070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krpjlud3b15frkfsobsv852ff1/11285445368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcf323dbeb---zojezozuzokevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881d3294629---72869131284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768a759d7d---8159618997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/gelimitawokalosuzisubigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjr711futktstateanse8o19gh/50645797088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ihd20snqaq23m82hrjg1qtp2/58636746313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59068bdb29850f8fca5c091ea45bfe4/62090317520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/zalebovizekesunepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/gamowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607332209d0a4---34372398212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l07un2kpl3nuj77ti0jprj060p/nodokanozazukadikege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57a0abd5e8ff3a31036267ef88326780/moxupinepoxawaradaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccc29f1618ff2f407a71e0414aa2b8c/wajavuniwojetejipalelewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beb281e277---86438532534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/38236347006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/kagixuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/kuzanedegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/foximakubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/58532266548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/14111063064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/jafasidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=convert+210mm+to+cmPDF 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_off0000df65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f77c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77C 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 359ebde9b803fb907f42d7fed1cd683b4e596780301c142d68e32105902df0e7
font_02_sfnt_off00010ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED9 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 9269eaa62593e50fdae5db84c5a0c803f85f7ce3a20c9725e25af824f8ed3aa1