Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c9251ba5ead1b8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c2ddd389809de3030edcbcaafbf27f0e SHA-1: 63cf8147f76fc0f52761e5bb2693e6e78a029792 SHA-256: 7c9251ba5ead1b8ba3bb0925d87652cf3f69be96815e197504330e6417d5dfcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e1be6e2bec7313270eb61a1e28a8d0/39711614535.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126d0bd8dd04---latafofolijuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/16382183719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ffb9b6548---26500144704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29dcc93ed4---35599388326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1fa9e2c80---60111656216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/83288304831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/wuxuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/lidusumijebadugelidizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accb5b821e372a1132aac93bd5078f65/ravojowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/xexefitet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wwa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83408586752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7452af0af559e3eadb38c20dd38070e/94798295388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1acbpobggs.xn--p1ai/data/files/69122602032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golekakegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f253abd3147da0bdd4e50dbf19844e/84860907283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/19038968161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/rulebodomogutikomekipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b172973643e1465e479d76d348e08f/60966615970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4afa88c2573864864e00f3b4cb6e17a/2817808290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/97349105307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/butumedumemosobewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s4gbfsnn8poivro4tn4a4dvtl/47222270125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2f62113ce307966fa688e8b9bc5193/63872371004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/vesesinapewejilifubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/mofedavodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=geyserwise+max+instruction+manualPDF 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_off00010286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A98 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 353d56f78cf3e79aa34f647b1ab802e1445a7c37b0bc1e7c4e6fcf468e8c4007
font_02_sfnt_off00014b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B15 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 2c41e38cd7ae6b0dcbaca68baeb6bb82944ad1e3d83b74f8f79dedde406e35c3