Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9328884811b0d8d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 00:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 15c98a9f1f427b77fa7ffd6dae761d64 SHA-1: 8bd5add87eb83ee78fbdc99267426b05e09e1c54 SHA-256: 9328884811b0d8d4ebd4e7e2e7f3d62f135886bfd717544701809a9923da1f8a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous URLs leading to PDF files. These URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc9ca922d---21139914767.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/10946523167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c09e837ac---51588669857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0559ab4a3---dupekelijugizirilobajogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09eacb717a4195dae7cc36b3207b42bd/zovogujorifejabojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/50863062427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/tekuzapalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ounp1abmfor6cm82ca5qpjh6/94717127179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98p9sbgarcq3a70dp9i33426os/tezani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/parizotunegesosusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.info/contents//files/vifikofixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numoxukasatukekosiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080361624de2---xepidofapoduxunasatulowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/94159752258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbb082ee2e---94203720496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/3277209131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masurenesotefamijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5690fdbb7f---munokezapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b7e0ad3c30f2bfeaaba0e64b2bb029/36540245294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c291251a912---34200650589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31e1e784d9ae715e917b98b9bbd0c71/48226471698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/85076978999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe4740a37---pelosanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/37673548332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+latest+edition+of+asme+b31.3PDF 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_off0000d57d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: f95b76ef8db3e473e7a9cac3652af932f31d8558b4fca9fea0c9aa0611f27a9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CA 16988 bytes
SHA-256: c8642bf98234a578dc41476f1d4d37e9ecae88a626b7dd8463deebb149d3c291