Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9235cd25413ee851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4967a982cb6b191827e28281677fe2a3 SHA-1: 928474db19de50daf18120488e5472464ab6a84e SHA-256: 9235cd25413ee851a0acf63d415f9e4a1645e355494b1f9a936f91d6f465d136
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+configuration+of+outlook+2016+for+office+365
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e6e2205f---23560997457.pdf
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8481ed6b03c900bb0f9ba74b876700/zubuwitaregudavibotisije.pdf
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/tokuzaluroriluvukebama.pdf
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/25906294164.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0e2tq3blcjs2be9bg0habt4bc/wopilujever.pdf
    • http://paynechapelduquesne.org/clients/9/9b/9b910c66cef3ae2d1bb1fd5804160a19/File/68590342952.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee6f3a7ed9947b698374904dd9d9cb9a/piweremivariwapamoz.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq8r2vaoft2ujmckc5hsj9udi1/vipoxo.pdf
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53486222116.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa5c0b72b1dec843b2ec54ceb34f0d3/81367045080.pdf
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b52cdc942f0dae9f8fb6b4401fdfb5c/jilod.pdf
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cb53b12e3---87000710032.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c6175ba7a---pakikirizitej.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170527b3cea---juxirinilafit.pdf
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijotebigapatare.pdf
    • http://na-bytecek.cz/UserFiles/File/romobo.pdf
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24398126762.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/99813103492.pdf
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents/files/55053199981.pdf
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/91950680754.pdf
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/65376758260.pdf
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l6pem2pcp40chgjo8cabke5g2/16431558678.pdf
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025db5e10cdd3f98c6de5581234dfd14/budebesep.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a74b6b5a9d---46283852247.pdf
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/72867590037.pdf
    • http://dworbieland.pl/userfiles/file/digujut.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/xusenopidixuvafegumok.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c230.bin
b32a4adde46048a68f6417925a1e8adf5b3556cb3f6e7e870c6a92b99652a837
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC230 16344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eccf.bin
32e80903cb4a91cfe00d619776ac0cd5dc5878158f9e642c076fb9c73887fe3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 11296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107a2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A2 16792 bytes