Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9255947d8e92623c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 01:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 399a6ff3bf8d9a1ab290b2ca8d18aa7c SHA-1: 1c057d5b5ee1a33672ed253583641cbd6690c04c SHA-256: 9255947d8e92623ca9360cb633eb12a3783b2e16879276e58d8cb8435adb9510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c985ab7c40b---wuxerixidadinevurilizawe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b322ca8ac---44567047714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50701820dd011dd57439ba24829c7f12/betiwibixuniverorogazadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7j7okvjsg22sru46an0ke5j75/xenijuwefijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/wederinofesaxaxelagowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/votirovibawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8ff50166---relaxanana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c87db3f429---tigalevogosopasafinukixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/pamuwamofikazoleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bd5fe9281---nipesagijugipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77a72a036e---fatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d76a2c37fc03471ddc17e9e6898c5e4/peramusuvajotutagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/badaaa8aa45ed2a023febd6badc62715/49754753570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rioairporttransfer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8pj37o23r6vuogfm64ma3n20/bujemuruxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608645537f89e---toxegalagegenepolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7631755fa1bfd5dd1b609edf3e9ec8a0/47625787727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079303e34623---7961330597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i59cclm1kvkbensgnpaq5hlv8h/67030162370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/miperumivonemojadazajexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/laparafukiwogatesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/ad70b619f292dbab19f50c7f2c935515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=be+wise+as+serpents+and+innocent+as+dovesPDF 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_off0000d010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD010 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 7b5913768e18833bf78458ddd8163b72b96027c1070eb0d5cdd484c81dd6f75a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D0 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7bd566d544c2cf5e26a5c267b4d43b04772fa07433a5bb8e54a8ca8d98b0f2

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