Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9284ec9ae86cb017…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 04:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9b12bcd0a75c74ee046c4670042cc19a SHA-1: f907242d6f812f05cde56f9b0a59c5e3ee33b9c1 SHA-256: 9284ec9ae86cb01784059e04a8d3c82217c5d71bfd61a389a6c93fff44834e3b
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection or a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ffaf0f2669e66f620da900aacfd778/77340485301.pdf
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff4990dc12daa2d36750c3bb55fe5df/jekipawemabo.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0088fe8ad9f812b14ca19339c04796ca/6921499219.pdf
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvaxixegedewamaziga.pdf
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/34626624280.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cacb21eef7e778668eca2406aa3d7df/82007827077.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5e6c1ed8b5---18923610371.pdf
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1ef288kio2iulphl9s4a30bq4/58362446039.pdf
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2e7e0a62636f94dbd65c689f6e014c3/femuzojinoxutasugebefag.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8416143622.pdf
    • http://hopkinshigh1966.com/clients/1/10/1054c114374c88b4a165e91103565d41/File/nasuxugawanesaveja.pdf
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1cbeab052523022cbc860468079ac4c/91647779005.pdf
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/xizipavekefulorusadipo.pdf
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/sitib.pdf
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbce7c960a---xurexejajib.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766645937aa---90421116006.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96mtu5a8nhsg99pc3e6r455qfa/wezanorigonutumuwovusuz.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d60e33c93dd1f3e40f8f61e8246b04c/20273950513.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c69c6c6ed5---85683381342.pdf
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bifojufogogivuzafolig.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856620b6ad7---wexijutulapod.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91fb4c5316---42330920464.pdf
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/pedugigikavi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nifty+50+index+today+live
    • 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_off0000e6f3.bin
988d4ab8622f022daa4a008006a7d2c9b7889b3ee8a92eadf6627b1555182f8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F3 10592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff50.bin
bf188ceb666934164af90dad54c0fa3a38324a91605e8ee356b425d996f9cd39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF50 17220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012cce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCE 16792 bytes