Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9306ef02fee74f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 11:37:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 786165d37c2b74fa3e73f820775e0a47 SHA-1: 50137a82599156c9bd7f2c71b56a508b5710b8c3 SHA-256: 9306ef02fee74f02dfed85061bcf8e561e8a438d4996d07eee3d66739a0ab5d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d82ba5222de---siwulumibexuvuwog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d908c4d1---60880426234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/99493591599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapelegogazipixibesufuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h7ae1p9o4disloo2k297hks9j/93037995213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu7cbqe7ib61gq39t0nn5g4ef1/fogosovonezolotedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/58183573866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7793eb664---63611166896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f37f71019---narawonoraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prctech-th.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e67a0d97d4a---82028022278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/2481814174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/wolokijepazavezisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba63808e9d6d1e247f28d72e76de989/35993467945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c9c12d210---43738584485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b39034619855fed0c271b5103d0e94b/fagubifotutanagugozumeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309cb7cc5a06669eb2a702da2a175eaf/71974429455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/68336089799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/87692623161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/97235629640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a31bc135e36a48d2ef1e17b860825fb/81868034766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a382b9d2d73---45675284120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08e691ff50---tutuweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/kaxodijozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A1cido+etanoico+nombre+comercialPDF 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_off00012015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12015 10504 bytes
SHA-256: cd8a4466404c63c078551017c5f3a7ee6ea367ba2da7d49fedae34420bf843c0
font_01_sfnt_off000137f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F0 20896 bytes
SHA-256: b9504940af2cbb405ad9424e4ff994cb27a93cf3371e87a02fb7e5fcb234eacf
font_02_sfnt_off00016bbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1