Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9084817dc890d9ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7148cb3cf876f911027439242c2eb0b3 SHA-1: ca488aa4f175dc5b3d8d4037d7979e5769bd6882 SHA-256: 9084817dc890d9ca362e22d9aeae99f90ff68c59b6ba6dd887085f5742fca445
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or malicious content delivery mechanism. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests an attempt to leverage these sites for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=combine+two+worksheet+in+excel PDF link annotation
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8be1h0imne0a2n0kvek8nate6/61885736890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/guxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f744d74a2482a208c879dc1172ae9635/viwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/80017195238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/gavolovuwoxuvuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/vujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/28780512507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5f2a6802a1---bofatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/wosexatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/94574361120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/povowaxavijagisuwadigika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/fulofomovidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaludeduminavebitoxekafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f7c4c9343303f6488ea1cfb2fa4374/vemeladegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30707133969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae7dcb7560---55684167882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/42495066870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/48319720337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/26952976355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/8688479310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/jadarawibipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvitikupugatopotiwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugaig55mgls04q5916gvdu5shu/logivezififedovububago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4EE 10784 bytes
SHA-256: acbde36703c1f001e4c0b8fccfff1a94d9086bbc9bf9fda15d30a926274402ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA6 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 67e6428a2bc1bbbf014ef3548e8f00f59fa59235e137655e45c4240bedd00909
font_02_sfnt_off00010a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1