Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9697e3ff3d843a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4fdc0f11082e8bb6effa5109f06b16a3 SHA-1: 864ce789c89c65ce1cbe38688aaa818ab01b03fe SHA-256: 9697e3ff3d843a495ba1d49355c3a970e4d145d43495f5895518dfc447f62d92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The sample's primary function appears to be distributing links to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f877b273ae84b9c27fb07b70c485bcac/20404888703.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slrj4andbck42f4i6rg4o6io3l/40805727725.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ju3kd0oo89eloe9t9k0c76vq0/kajumarun.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf24b9a72f---30988268016.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1903cc6e---40007589068.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r68f4vd21vg2jo4l0vga04go99/visoletibatobibifixemelal.pdf
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82813698726.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee667480d86b46e520695d81fc22d531/12092390018.pdf
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2qh7i05vrumh1clvd8j74dot4/xukogidezomelepetejupon.pdf
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/werirofolin.pdf
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12304efbaade178b4d68f930d7af9a01/50437768324.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d276b246caa663348bf3e5671695665c/69190114564.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804dafdf572---vejalenad.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d00a4fbc7---fefamorifubavipepopav.pdf
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612b3034c91363af1271435b4806feae/95495626918.pdf
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/basafugunolewevawasi.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5107dad7e---90755850176.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg1lt800bj8v9vlnj5r6g1f360/dakijofexavivoduzujij.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16246740998144.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608800acf17d6---zedaxasegozovovajosox.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ab314379f---65431661077.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25bq6fd0bs4ec1k2cerr6ssobj/14364983731.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/13188017062.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=horned+wreath+location
    • 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_off0000f25f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a76.bin
bded78182a67d11253aff9277b1a6a856a4192632fc4ee61cd4d8bdeae3618cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A76 10376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121cf.bin
a1555746dea8a7847f12f2dc03c46885c9018623aadcfd76ba268c11e8cc731e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CF 16920 bytes