Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9672873b2daed261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 09:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 834be42ccf25c648421ccb92e80b2ea5 SHA-1: 7f53e3354e9e3aa81c82c9cb30a531ba83eeb740 SHA-256: 9672873b2daed261906fa8cbc615bb2e3184ed861e6bc30bf0ec5e12d75fbdc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to redirect users to phishing or malware download pages. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users via social engineering or by directing them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+se+hace+el+test+serologico+covid+19
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfgpqmjsjgq5sgs8cvk1n9k4op/birogubumirulegek.pdf
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/gezes.pdf
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/rixurigu.pdf
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/dowavizeguzotubaweruwate.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fe49c2e0c1f42e6bd240bc46fb2fe89/vofomekimaf.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec0399c8b1---48334418695.pdf
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/toseko.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24389561dc298e8d442ae313dc970756/sazeberit.pdf
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/6105320772.pdf
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/wunuwoxewoniburefufoxofa.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c86c458f80---36560406128.pdf
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/76301807330.pdf
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/62158828328.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89ca41ca3b---91934479570.pdf
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/18690471404.pdf
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixuno.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fi3k1bmakb1rvt4ur5g2uj2t8/77101837502.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/sabiloketa.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d8bcd4917---falojonolilo.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntl38mg4lobjbp5ml3r4ng9ip7/77171494070.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4d5dda8b7---37828001863.pdf
    • http://oskarmak.com/userfiles/file/dovimi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f946.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF946 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011158.bin
2be9d682895c0f37ccc5070ad0905f26129653ee71ae8cae58397541f7d665d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11158 18028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f51.bin
fe93eb194ca9ff92d6376637d013bab1718cd66166734aa79b19d8f7f527a6b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F51 11028 bytes