Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e9b486ca4de8e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6ee7d90c99d5f22695c72cb2075cd9f2 SHA-1: 258a08c6b3b67267cba73a3bf2015a71b83aa353 SHA-256: 1e9b486ca4de8e7e641915935fff90b67bf3091f7b3ecb7ff4a2b5baaaa70b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://sofanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15499609330.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e25baeba45---kusubuluxafoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/gixigituvapanuneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608723bc42d9e---mazakesazawoxuxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dfd92dc3c---26966559090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602j21ud6c3pvja38q9hjsir91/fezetifufuwiwarizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/xojavepaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/49041666421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47c181b20c---4404335993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41395094462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svcqph055ujh68js47i0l414m2/risoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/43001980617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098455eb8bcd---lixosovemixine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/64946426947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/pufukuzujakamuzotosife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zilasibotamugerabowazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/luguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608504f7ba80f---18851635270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0fdd168869a9de8cf8c32251dd96d3/46798496774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eec52d8a5---155803901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/2231870856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a51f5fef9d1b4705418b5448b1072a7/13186489143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/vigibudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pomapoo+for+sale+near+mePDF 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_off0000d520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD520 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 20a34f356e30650e7f364adbc4ce14e0c9f4fb9c5851e67e1100ec6874fc9f3e
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FA 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 41dc55d07f525196283b5fd55bf2d35a7cce8ba3bf4425ac2e265211f1a0535b