Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9886ba0f5872584d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 09:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bd71a48f550926f2b2c5ec78093f6616 SHA-1: 0255fe53385e9f5feb20a624d22c261fa36a6b89 SHA-256: 9886ba0f5872584da59795c7bc7222b26070963506bbabfa038f56d4350e92aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, indicates it is presented as an 'Excel budget sheet example' to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/36061083301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/86739845379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af965ad4194---70066367539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/nakudatobebumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ade8520af---fomakavusutirara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/25142983923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u01sdk9sbinvgtbnnsbjqu1f2/vagedorobigedenowove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527799ac2e55f9663d0c21c29e18a972/kezemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089227d57a68---47208326296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0613/9960367d3ae57080edd4cf66a5cf797d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7aa9e7e1b---84854094629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b228f8203af1286ee2876500ac77d4d/muxonabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d21e7352---tafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/fuginak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/redojarularufasazulaferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3129ef59d7479089506bd08ab73656ea/warome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee2829ce7d---luketawekemewijugilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3013ac67623c05650a9cb5abbe48eb44/84436367260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/98242253314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19d9ef071596b39a8de7d85ed4175706/ripome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=excel+budget+sheet+examplePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CC 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 048be9ba8275f6f18a4b7556015f8835fb6194a40172565768f546e8d2e7f2e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF590 11236 bytes
SHA-256: f7ffb3405fc6b4284e9039e214ac296f58a810520dcaabb29dccd5487e360157