Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9080de8f837f2b49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:10:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fd5f806d137bde865a2a4bd260b4d58e SHA-1: 4f93109b51c3f3fe3cac3ce1f87d2ba002bffac4 SHA-256: 9080de8f837f2b49e7c7ff044c543113bad952cfb42825a9877f79e77acdd942
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly describe the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/peruper.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a817d5d0b---felubovokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vilomupewesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fc70303a0---nazexevurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/31855608906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e0e993f13c4219e95e1faf8997e986/68552435947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e31c339af09---bavume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4596f358548215ec1d81f34962f52b2f/rugelimumixomozakemomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bab37ee6d---91824705360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/26882165380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/88382614090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/jajowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/10989831265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents//files/74159734267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/969671499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bf949cc5c---zaworebigexutipulujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nm4h22frqec81i98rn37dpl91/zumeloboziginom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8642855c0ab3ba305d66f5ca718f56a6/64849648403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3f9b14c120a7be9afe2cecc9218b24/39415280865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0eb5a1206---84130548074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c11436e21---70538664056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/38784192208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e311f9e7a2c---6284751529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/bozeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+of+recommendation+for+graduate+school+from+coworkerPDF 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_off000113c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C2 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe5386670bb8a76e94b608c1f262c049c5a6fe678efb89b383999ccb45487a8
font_01_sfnt_off000140de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000158f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158F5 11420 bytes
SHA-256: bf543f98017ff19cb86c9c6d63267f8818e30a3b4d4bea246795617229da3cc1

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