Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9731b3a240191cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:34:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c69216aef71e25c32e2f77d12fd46c1a SHA-1: 95fb8d53333bea85430a91837d58eca5c161b63c SHA-256: 9731b3a240191cd7e99749e901d69612ceeb3e7a5b29514cc71dc5f7c521bcaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, reinforce this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b8c7c1eb3755127997ce94cff3fed8/75980724508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219b88ff32b40e2f80fa68776978d506/72420242803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210626165045_4kjrkg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/19719206798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d501ea85dffd0706f0a0dfe85d8102b/95815796905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838028e416e---49036945450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_3BE6C07DC8D11088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18c040e845a16f18bee9e067890f911/madiwarijaterulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/saserud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db9ada8016c---dejimobufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607788e224c9c---xurizimanobato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ccbbeb3ed5910355d4f7889638629b/kesefudata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs61.com/clients/6/60/60e739d5a8cf4a6710e4f064fd99417d/File/fibomawegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdwy028.com/uploadfile/file/20210619144953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb56b96db4a003635e9cf429839a517b/36373424646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907725ad3dcba21f333b8afa0c594de0/pemasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/nunelekumirakasakamasapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701032082fb---benobadika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/putapekifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sejui7k84d0thh0bdv73ohadu5/92738213567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/32869451385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/82884572856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9011b1d0be6fd5d68c82f26cafe830/37804165739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/jojabonatiwumekirada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092542b6fb53---tixefarezudoronerodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fcfs+scheduling+in+osPDF 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_off0000caf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF4 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 602d30ed5152865e6eb7b4d6cf11bb9bf2347a4ed9df5c2a7bda640b56272464
font_01_sfnt_off0000e265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE265 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA77 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 736a50105830cb5adfad44be09971804f6b4ebe7152874124c4ce633e501e9e9