Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9240a1d41453d338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 27610f5a966aa9ab502ac32fdc4c110b SHA-1: f0efdc6321662828f5fde7f068948552434b6662 SHA-256: 9240a1d41453d338b9365da1f489441d129a9a2419c6ddd2446326968a6c702c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially untrusted domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/risepepizeziloj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a90291083---268627066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/68155683806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48bfc56b331deae18e2bce714721846e/71209254781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/banesafelixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba17675c233---jegopubuveduxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/60581833328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebf8956766---83431475196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9828b1ed09b22749ef5e92c3a8d2e6f2/19701535241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ed0f9a57d06fb6aac36069db368534/sapelakalufelumavuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0vhc58bfaeik1f1omqgvpbja/50158429217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/98917487469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokale-uzytkowe.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/42449390715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f53416e142---51254549609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/tixisonufolesujevudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/fefifeponodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210624021813169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c734f639a46559b1f1941e0c3beec39e/nadigamula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2d8d046e018bdabc5293b7201a0ed2/fegaxezabukewadojipexave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/nulilozapopasekagaravis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb76a86e7301ad256e67a3e147b7096/fojowojolovazetasalibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/nimijibozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/xupikerifukilodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+spell+january+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000ef37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF37 19452 bytes
SHA-256: fdcf7d5e80e97ef37bd404ab278bdabeb9a46eeb04e4d6b7ac7ca916258f1ddf
font_01_sfnt_off000121de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F5 10772 bytes
SHA-256: fbe11326271e970c6ea2b3d93bcbe4c7acd8c01a7c1ac76411c21e4d5a60f7ec
font_03_sfnt_off000152b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152B1 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4