Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9568d7951cd7c424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-07-09 05:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ac3d0102c7c09a173dfd0195efaf38a9 SHA-1: a733e1c25c250b893a65409bc061b1351c629df9 SHA-256: 9568d7951cd7c424d3951ca31977bef2b6033d3a1187660e29b0ceb963432ea1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing pages or malware download sites.

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 http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c77cb8afa5---95902067296.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8873be4ba---24639624838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/simujaxuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/38243279235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a244e42ebac---kurisago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae8997694c0b8e7d95177f6e105f5d1/66129972756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab830687804---69781326197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh0mfqqko81023vvho8ncphg5g/39792877884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57kaca51k03c7cqnpheh2u7bg0/68918407175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094179db471a---73672670662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fdca678fcfa8174d46df72d3973794d/727733005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/2459383544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353c68c695---85057949938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eili2rrtt9aboau215rhp4cdo1/24097220845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70d1cfd6db090ad2f203bd1a18ca9269/43310382288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rajonugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50dfe26d15b1acdcef87b4b147a25f8/66190949280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607030ace1aaa---folebosomovavuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/fulidumiwasotukonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/poludexonuwavotunorabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/6181284761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=comma+shaped+rodsPDF 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_off0000b976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB976 15048 bytes
SHA-256: 3a92b473961a00957e5005b0264cf4501f83b5fc9167ea1f8afb00fc30cacbe4
font_01_sfnt_off0000df33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF33 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 88823dae81381c94f1ba16f88a1d9c0bb89812d66a283ff5ef5c9966c0554e51
font_02_sfnt_off0000f68f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1