PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9307ec84a36bc566

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07

MD5: b18df49a1b27dea2a97106c9526a51a5 SHA-1: c8a84d8ca6db070d0e4c548d6327397470971525 SHA-256: 9307ec84a36bc56679b613d74933f9e052d2bb5fd80db8e738e08bea0fda586a

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true destination of the malicious links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5tgl4gj1t8tinb57jac5aigc4/96873633466.pdf In PDF document text
- http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/58301440502.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a61c7f074488b5cd79c18896c24b36/51396332378.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87dffbd6fae8c31b0afb6884c1c66160/rajesafevilemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e13433724b---vosalexifalunemide.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73136082745.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au9cg7brfaq8jo5nvvj04l3fv7/6327489440.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/damowim.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/07/30/file/20210730_022419_139.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/29926704293.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mmszke.hu/files/file/sajagokejitajegenanadab.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ekvatorbl.com/userfiles/file/gutex.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210620230616.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/badevikudu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/wimofugadifofewos.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210627034638160.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0a6a6c08c2---6556659584.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff94bdcd21a7ed450fc24f3a92117ca6/tesigikalukarinadajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86m5imfkcaog6jtfilmdq00h91/81480791993.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02a8f15633---kupijako.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/xevaligofutexukufiripukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/69266541277.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/85937717889.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://e-ceramika.pl/userfiles/file/nenukavadegilakovixetogug.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+drainage+pipes+pdfPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000c9bf.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9BF	16248 bytes
SHA-256: `a5887fa97e216fb319f5c657dfdcbe8fb3508f04db8aedcea54c1d00f41b810e`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000f36f.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36F	10604 bytes
SHA-256: `7d62e0fb17311f2785fc8d2c2e2c21b7e277221124cd50259490433281fba9c3`
`font_02_sfnt_off00010b94.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B94	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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