Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9478637205d3ecb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 953238f5f1cf338d3a2b30c60ee60225 SHA-1: 8908e15bd249b62f2c99002b64ff65da0a8899ea SHA-256: 9478637205d3ecb936db65c607698287ff42b33826e8f692020cffa64b6674db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially harmful external 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 http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/62020886892.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/37750992176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3160a2d384---kururilopunurakilafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9f2ab61ecc1f88e4cacf2f3ec23c91/tirudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e766f4c0a2bfead11903e01582fcc5/63470285894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1frgqb9e75e4023tk705p5s50n/kugikozowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c981a4c72bbdfae02facd236ad78b4/gopapewonuvilasugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncvg1mjuel0s5unhefj1bq2v95/60430770353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/pifuximonamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d3f95cb43---19127998955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610daa569e71e---86086727816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b303c9842f8c7d264813d4273f4ae13/midadiwizagepevosojumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/lilesavoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b529225d01---54415119360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6bc7bde5---50647841177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d60c0bd4833f2fe7e3b9f037d59796/fitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893f32aa2791f0ec468962a36c592a1f/xugexegolerujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/tosojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/96144163114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nofatrans-int.com/userfiles/file/77519923949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673d8e7728944dc71813f5d33bad1812/divus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/99020665550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o88orqbnobkmeidiebj5mi59o9/47433823968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/rebokujoparavixidunexadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=spring+mvc+tutorial+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B7 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc039efce027822f306f83429d0881a855913fd7ec58518589491f774f447e7
font_01_sfnt_off000107c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD8 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 25dc7f036e86e53b2d4f00457f7bbaca6de3e30a12a4662eb35dcc238fc33ad8