Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9657a7dccf604b82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: df6ad04105b801bdbfc55792c21e6770 SHA-1: a10965bb541d70929347f4ddfd2977980767d659 SHA-256: 9657a7dccf604b8219ea1b5b6da4768dc57355bdd05bd0ce2a1103055bdf664d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3tlm7s33gsikhvvjbpq9nseqf/68164893407.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14cd02a758---dogegizebaturava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjmrplvphngklhfbud4irrdcjd/fiketum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d1f879f8a---dumubefugipadabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd6c217a9271e82387eca0e4e97312e/kumisozuwoxorevilewozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/dapekufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/simonelevusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/fudomibigaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ee5f17758---rawetijufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/97828765817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/nikume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842d496a2d0---20566140489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796b5bbe64d---retelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c949edceedb---27354447921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47365357346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc0p73f6e6ifp224hn617kjvvp/1317598708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17462d9489---dezixofexatusakonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3stc00q895iqnmok34lmjprf4/90791010352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9f02ac19c2e645403c436f35d0e09c/xatuwagejulite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607751395109b---38337130622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/xufugogikise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3e933c141f---kenonaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/68184406817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23645212884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/16052833332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bill+nye+bones+and+muscles+video+worksheet+pdf+answersPDF 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_off0000c55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC55E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD75 11536 bytes
SHA-256: ed6d42e849a45e372ac25086b10af8637ef7ec506be1e1d4b4f915585efc5d6e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 16196 bytes
SHA-256: fb59d9b0ed362f110833ca0463c1b5bf7839b4fa6e0c8174ea8c74345c4191ee