Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9038d607255aa443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 25dac3f148a64be412158f4ea1a28d69 SHA-1: 4e2230af944369fad9e7f82fc40addf5c1994a94 SHA-256: 9038d607255aa443faa6c2db80f2c08eac640227aa7510ee9484e294921edf98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or conducting phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b7d6f6f241982603c5963300e36fb7/vekoganoworugerozox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/nisixamewaberabapujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/13295699284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eea519d3e4cd3df40581ba3ad4651da/89718103927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41fbbb8872df5c43ac97bad9e41584c/jadugitofajolixibovofemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/50296792586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewomawerapoxirowodakiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a799f377db7---16882489105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef98e11e6dc0fe93c4f0e2f5d61c7f5b/82000407007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5d82374f6bdcf62806c3b4342d45a07/dadeguwaduzitotebutefiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6102B16168B51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/48200407337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa6f52ad8f---88656961444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/tonifadixepuzakavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99816176188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e1c1aec13---75156995222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/73955261613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotinepmuveszeti.hu/kovagoors/uploads/files/73581319146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/76846793908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/fozuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43cbb80808---45466444692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/mevusezizuzegakodere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/13045144407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3941853271---87894842477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=dictionary+of+history+pdfPDF 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_off00012883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12883 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 9cffbb88e6f58ed26fd96e448e134824b8c0ce8ba84b4c134710d5dae99bd200
font_01_sfnt_off000140e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140E9 20980 bytes
SHA-256: 15840f61c6a50ba2ef65c81c1f9d513cdf8a6e85b7d08d0adc478c1449da47a9
font_02_sfnt_off00017853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17853 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1