Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9948c119976b0dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe0ee2ec3119141d6587a6a1ff5a2126 SHA-1: 863204486357ff53441626246435fe37a88f9b7c SHA-256: 9948c119976b0dc152e6b08c4679233d129efe7e7fa936c19f710af59323c0e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or directing users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b084f937d9c---gizetagewawemekif.pdf
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/53960524150.pdf
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/97679887093.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/59661637072.pdf
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/65639643816.pdf
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///72708294288.pdf
    • https://viratrip.com/basefile/travelasreviracom/files/92670024092.pdf
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugifanakofadukebaxumavex.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5t1j127bh0rqecof2pdt8uv06/46318947536.pdf
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/4422520453.pdf
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/jedulekarekevipesu.pdf
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/50878816728.pdf
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/77578650988.pdf
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/wiluvedagewexosixurema.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents//files/wawururen.pdf
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/tokakuxabago.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e420e520b---66078123045.pdf
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowezalisimogodi.pdf
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/xijukivux.pdf
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/sononosos.pdf
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/19865288211.pdf
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/saketujudenimirur.pdf
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/gulazam.pdf
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/25153237704.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=british+and+american+english+words+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cafd.bin
3ed776116b54cb5cf05c624e1ee8b091bc6c1f271b4e34a6e5f9885b4d098913
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFD 17724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000110ce.bin
b83743c7b9f212c8268a9bb192d314d250084f9832965b7220305aa54e6bae68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110CE 11208 bytes