Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9045f339b56e7f60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:38:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: cc8b78147f29233e16191e33730a4e02 SHA-1: 3d12ade1892f3d9678aa46a32deb8fcb63930670 SHA-256: 9045f339b56e7f60a7f6deaffe8be4874edd60153e19b33869798cec19b31fa6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and the presence of link farms on compromised infrastructure supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d856b867e---mibave.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2670e84289---zopudagitifipixegerobake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc292bd98a---bexamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f22d8c806---vojumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210807/files/20210807043405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/joper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/26181399171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otd3se05vj9ith6uqo2c6f3t53/kavusovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a22c8944be---setudisile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szybkieprawko.pl/szybkieprawko.pl/user/admin/fck//file/5587863444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/kiriwadisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972087522c7---fitedugumawebelugeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/mufagomakurogefipesidozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvaxixegedewamaziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788661bf0c0eaa2bfcb4370dffe08c41/soserepebakozakaruvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/vipiwazosipaginipavipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/ruzotipajokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/67918340194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/3666326801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e3a37c9b3---17709131033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/40080837790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/witifaganatakavulojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aca539b518---42119277106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8573eddcd014e7a2a5850617fd7d7c4d/wapozenubawebatunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=predictive+modeling+applications+in+actuarial+science+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ce7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7B 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 18117a92999c5537582537d07e46815367d189c29e30d38c5e67edde82461aec
font_01_sfnt_off0000e895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE895 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 3a43b82ae5214838ee843a822c99b30a74c08459ee0de2f82d4f3fa9469a81c7
font_02_sfnt_off0001169d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1