Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9618003b58207850…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a89904d7c46a716b215751293ff6e547 SHA-1: 779657ebb3db6a7af7e0fa058259f548427c9f0a SHA-256: 9618003b5820785088934ea03df9858b747dc748abcb87bf70def8ae8e43df55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded content are consistent with techniques used to obscure malicious links and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/83854423453.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsr2bnc13j4t4fum06k99ls1bo/jokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31513da4f866166d9126a39df88fdb0d/likemixolopozujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ca8b661ec---tawefusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/tujabituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30m3ui9kcn3eruflvmrksirqk5/41422339202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cd1019d3afd16d962645688b33a1f19/pazedapotunisakurapinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/24126745403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06fc9a23a561b2ac5f93b7b8c540c28/10715664645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/38838687073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4f2fb0887---54558811911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210826092523_1815680950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/87999348470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubosemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/direkozamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf917f3b62d79df7a61596268ecbad1b/9523261707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12675cb0adfe2ebb971d8aecfbd4ce0e/zaruzibufelafewedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77180186901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c6535ca81220413abc4c690d611cea/pakojuxajefilejajunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ca274a59b---57861088635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/24563220974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/32727129524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35b07f8c3---79320704543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/vepafuzeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/62794076567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/96239506756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=antrag+schwerbehindertenausweis+nrw+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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EB 11040 bytes
SHA-256: f7a579e813ade96ca38e68244759d86c4352f95f46dd7e640e54fc63ae276116
font_02_sfnt_off00011b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3C 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 23b4a49e063656f6b01d69060c271bcb8402420dc6f4d4030ec67b11ac55a229