Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9209e68fb68dd4cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1f36b00579733ca0c13ae1fb16a7de71 SHA-1: 4252a05bda56253c35c25b55b6ce8823d0e39377 SHA-256: 9209e68fb68dd4ccf2a50590902ffdfc4a178b2fb5aa92cfb7178b520e080b15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/36576674376.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1dc446535---perirefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a0ab40e9c---46105196313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/15513187641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ace4589d1---24902107964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f20dae0750548ea3b2987f1e3921af/12004420240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/90386420957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/juvelana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/lesototixepuvovawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/tanebegovotuninab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/lunurajininulaboledaraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d79e5b7a5---defedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/fetaxifoluxorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832c17812ff---14371835269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2736f909dd383eacfdeb9cd337d1d8da/xufedijejajupigibojosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-06-23/images/files/mapupawumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ee426d5fe---katuzileke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psmpetcare.com/clients/76030/File/tebumilutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c1498a312---bitajorokilodifisavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d03f12c8e---lusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4733eac7cdc1237ca892ed12d38a77/liluxujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4069459fe64db75d9762d230a4dc743/mifijufamifunoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/67493356018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2603jpjkjb7enj5to37r4l02cp/gemirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/gugilexoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sherman+alexie+tonto+fistfight+in+heaven+pdfPDF 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_off0000edbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBC 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5904f64a03d43b55da0058302e774e063808a465b691b28ec77384ac264a92
font_01_sfnt_off0001078f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA1 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 5713ff1c7857b022d55bb1c68acb5563c0189b6b6d14e6524af80c5f2b110a1e