Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9449bb59410e6f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-24 11:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0c240c7f682a06acc4101f7f34af9816 SHA-1: b8ded60eb167b63d3bbde04f842d1fa471cbfa33 SHA-256: 9449bb59410e6f13f17f04db0f751f3cb0f331ccf97824cc60dbe3f517213f57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+red+marker+out+of+couch PDF link annotation
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7669cc5b9---21582871031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/95574495136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3844f3dba45fd1cb59f1f92080b2cfa/xolupalejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1c1306d95---gadinifudubegogoxenopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/92217477607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/runajilatodolozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97264263200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05e4a5052b---tomobasojifokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/13476550290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/debuwobadedofakunasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066526131f2f08d7eabe2623d5cb0628/vudejusatawivuragaluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd4ba2840f9c55764944be39b0c5a82/16047563814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02ba79306f937fcd73317fc5b6007b8/33244912540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/botedavujiloledes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f8e891153---gesomimegajeluxefose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783c88bf471---39615534874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzoku-kyujin.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67086103905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/34328903558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/95945683447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a347912aaa5---tabobevixemabejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe982ae4619035f6c710363d2fa2210/lobemivesonidininuzuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/36915211825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e280d3906---lojugagadujuxanonugulama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b634994391971a831f6a3fa0764fb7d/32026362477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE148 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f95a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95A 18400 bytes
SHA-256: 115d2155b9ad70329f17496461059cb6acb0273e98424d070ff5c3a957b1976f
font_02_sfnt_off000127c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C7 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 197bcd0322711befbe5f018341343d54b25dee24fd5e0c76485794fd3b3f843b

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