Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9168749c4ef0ced6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:10:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7077b3e2a2c6de74c9418d71b6911fbc SHA-1: da3b6fdad24bae4eb63c81f0b902d361bca2dfbb SHA-256: 9168749c4ef0ced6b6a19b9930ee75922cf46e51e9fce161f7250529e0eb3e2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where users are lured to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8aea3154b---jikakivapujefabizabuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/84091425526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/83262254030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11174556369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femanizilobidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/42977110862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/19067243393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/37415840086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d3b2c550d---gidoxubunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/62282146747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a8c7bbbe90b211ba246b5a7a722fb5a/lajizaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7df8de31e539179475a1541a5c7bf4bd/xisolenakagalumafowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca78b26078---vatajurifuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0mtckfrs20gt5rhonqme8vmfb/mimujinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jujogugijalovariduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74837434927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c687e268201---69362915446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/61126555647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa045cc7831ca257f58b0503d8b4ca74/36217914681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/43874331729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2ilhvhfp77pahoccl8gspq2cn/14747292348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/3119710280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e22b10fb6ce215f43b91e01ccc6cdda/wekajixazikoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/dubosenepofurujofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/nejigizugodixovugaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/kosazowirizafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=supreme+court+case+lookupPDF 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_off0000ed2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2D 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0036ce34b7dee087eb35e6bb44df78f67e07aa79f43d5866459929769d0e944b
font_01_sfnt_off0001057c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057C 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 27f1520f6098a911a900e3e80c9ef5c8776b5df81124bc32c6380559f31d0a14
font_02_sfnt_off00013166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13166 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1