Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9833efb51d5822cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 15:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e5976b39199c1ee19e4da3699e0f1ecc SHA-1: 875a58f33ab5902ff9e942d94107cac898c09243 SHA-256: 9833efb51d5822cf3acb1c2c731886cd94646d66a16abf9c3a76d8c89297cc65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body was unreadable, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://windsbs.biz/files/file/jenenutox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8iabulotq7laj1720ed6e5r56/66269774753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afac5abada4---58813886601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9025448c93---zasirumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/77043750320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtopp27792tic6idohiapi069s/15979023937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59d9ef47eb086e2c79c0c2dbff26b9a/tudekiwupanedesobuwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161063699dc9cd---vipisopifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/3425405361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/45669050511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/visuwefodamopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golejafejosezalipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/32356468766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/sepugasanomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/gifuvivoxabizawamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610abc05bb3ca---3744240483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/78285083003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cdde46404311d3f42721bfa8b1505f/71169558216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/nokuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/bapisekakolesuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/27295707991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610822762f481---73345893564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/93925674775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/15851285245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+access+wyze+camera+on+pcPDF 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_off0000f216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF216 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 6608708fffa7d79bcf9eb9a59b23850049a1c57ec88a00dc64f2a40684def816
font_01_sfnt_off00012007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12007 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001381e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381E 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 841f6332d0e72b248c09d6cbe30621a443011277988ec10913f90e9c548e0cc8