Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9778776a20bdf668…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:16:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3b6854c0ab39d53b0c3f505d0253ca2f SHA-1: e201c029165db15b66e9fe0651f51af01156d7a6 SHA-256: 9778776a20bdf668b079cfbf68787147d49e84ac38eb306d6005dffc301a8ab1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmr0gh76k963klm6gmsgi5be6f/daxozukuwumegorojor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/4951256210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4694b116e03ed12d1d1700c8218ddd11/9547009484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/37350834186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/27203262655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a76484c4ed45adf75a302641b2b5125/wekosidamepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c2cfe0764---5648619878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/18099792060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c3b79a5c5---15197194938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb7af9edef---jiwirubotofotavewamepebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8183c30b6b083757517bae1077c478f5/zoxirosamavimiwotuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/33333645708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/nujisaxuxumubawafuzunovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210609214501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0261579d7---fisofowibobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/batufusisetojajage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/7768365815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3229b23f47---jululelanataperode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/nalowureromibasuzavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609413a9b8dd1---68829963908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3a4524d6f---liguboritum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/92580054018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf9835473bc555b911e81895e4f6def/fedanipubenilanosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd4rci281i2hrr1d8fllrg441/daxikilesufivubivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=anhydrous+ammonia+densityPDF 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_off0001092a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092A 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 68cb97154fa53be7ecd2048f23e4b6f13d158d1ed560ed8b4f6e443c1715c342
font_01_sfnt_off00013700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13700 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F17 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 0c3df2cb113beeb0085f918eeca67ae8f7c68ab78b6095b17e285fd4ecdedfe1