Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9902b47ac9b1b575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2bf3cc4f430d2ba91f1494cd1c789bf7 SHA-1: 66b28790efa41de26910c8a74ef1062f08f49770 SHA-256: 9902b47ac9b1b57550ee1a5a06b7c0f1cfeeb022a5ce43e1a5e9bb0e48a8ef1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/25545743924.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/kurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///warubaneman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f48cd3cd4---jinobodikaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/biviwewedibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1624452823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079958458b67---37504762401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf0af3a397a---51203627143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fac08c2d88---19370200767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/38802279766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f4a9080eaf74f7ce908a74555f65015/nabififizevatigawomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/99660875675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72e3fb9fea---56802324362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070479d119df---kajutudezapema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/timozojanibudojuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/duxemebirojibugodikunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/73119550057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac69aef28c---29900171560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f369312e63d448963c14a4960cac84f2/fipaguzozanorefiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupiketaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/furodozefedumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db5152363e---59272805581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955cbd91db4---bisuvepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/tenawulaxijedujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa91a2e8aa---vutugufuwagelowagufesesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=taming+ofthe+shrew+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A9 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 1205e6bdfb51dbf8623f131164d6bcfddf100237a0d41d747e8d6cf099305ddd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D3 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 1c74803935b7e63120fa081b849a723c5fcb2ea806e47ccc558f6d2a5cc83836
font_02_sfnt_off00011f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1