Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9836bb5b763b5a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4d8cab137afa8be5edf87f5baa173df0 SHA-1: bd5908c1b6c2d9f1fc5f2c684c35790a8f21c50f SHA-256: 9836bb5b763b5a4102915f48afa6615e0844f30b6040f84567407bac91ddd983
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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 http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/5982519197.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e0aad040854cebf505a9f795dd6a7b/nonazepanuriwopulisarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/77075945715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/nesafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c116442fcbc---ramujumomitirekupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e6d7b402c---kuvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbba16ef37---39166043343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lj5ipcrm9bje4e428pchtesb1/lebugewavuzumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igpa8peq4k277jr5hmtuonkvt6/58785335491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66b436bd1f0b1be4076283311c33f17/82455574328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/nanuripuzotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogkntat8n556cv5cjir44jiie3/98002563850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/luxekebonimisakuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/xisusozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128c1df669b4acbaa569b58ac0c1ecc2/7164605231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94a195edaa---15059142384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259jur2l8g6grv892ij8okuvrd/95537463937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/besazuzaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodawapusazetuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ab8f83875e351845281f686b3da7e2/22567856914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e36017bee---zabisisamudulavevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14daf8b94029f79f0071e5fced8874c6/tewisedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a84568cdb3---xoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/gawemidaxekubotuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=which+one+would+you+choosePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8FF 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 38bdf28b276cf2314cdef679542cc3ecee74c97bc34171e7818481cd74ef5eb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07D 17548 bytes
SHA-256: dc91ad6f0f01bb5ae66bc926b08f310a185c181a7795ac69023f7374ee6c8812
font_02_sfnt_off00010c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001249a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249A 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 2d473f92dc58669751595fb9d38d01859f3b3a93dfb676b0bc5039cf5c20ece4