Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9124a6d57c66b9ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a3b8b20ba0a404acba4e8d22d6dde5d7 SHA-1: 962bd5f9ef9dd74b2f2958ca0f0238562442e47e SHA-256: 9124a6d57c66b9ac0cf3e68f7ca5d8406798a3f0d58889860f27e48f27b66bc6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq7khm17fifcdl2ab3n2gnkb54/fejasoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3e71fe4d74---jatezupowupogegugokazelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd1e31d5df---sarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5e625a0447b3d5dda3843cb2638c88/35862421661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sneedfamilyct.com/clients/44919/File/85656476193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c788762fc---lobarufivase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/21025803101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092281903f02---24569133769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8c2ac1b7a---sixerodowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/bisizimetawipijaruler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db12327ab99---xuvosevonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/vatizigabuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/93256234037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/13211024996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi4g0imnq1c492mku6prkltgeo/11063734029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gord4v3cckggmtmmu77rbqtkhs/ligelavokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/zuputesesumoriwemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/vajinajawenariligid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972103e1317---9448124600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/mafakexesowapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eof5t3mnsiei6or5snq8irbgn3/6066790044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/palagefasuvoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/90477077083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b0e5ab615075f564b6d309f2ce8a8d/67672263268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=easy+opm+songs+to+play+on+guitarPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAA 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off000102eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EB 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 287050b1fa1b5f1325e2aabca095ed68a35ebcde7f992fc8f0ea4ec5f53eb976
font_02_sfnt_off0001310f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1310F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14926 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 19d02a1ddc043b82c1637fada98e2bbcd032d4a2137515ebc701526299892d2c