Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9963530b0a645c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 11:44:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0cbbbf6c7f748a246b282be51b1703d6 SHA-1: d5c264675c6ad934e811fe04c07204b1d2958da1 SHA-256: 9963530b0a645c509511d8c7a1f1b13dcaa998b4fedc146f922967baf0bb7230
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to mimic search results, specifically for a movie download, which is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a pattern of leveraging vulnerable infrastructure for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0364cce8e---50895440667.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q8gildhlktf8avsf6umb36p46/98903497162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/71988500911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b2d8756e6b4a6ae7a17586a5002475/pexezusuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/25462712637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/jurowakomerafomituve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/12364960743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763f28791f9---dizogadetujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607968953819c---toxijovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/nutujetapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/kevavepupulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844c00c9035---17697516762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/19904072750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97bdfaf1a6---juvoxodimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4d6vjfquqkhoi7ld8vikb8eo6/folubaxopusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4be786937---48847400865.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+8+full+movie+free+download+mp4+englishPDF 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_off0000ebe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE3 5844 bytes
SHA-256: 7097e1d0f7fe53f2dccc2ca59ce4ecb43b989d051460ec95bae2e3f923a60b4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBD 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 27444e824b9540984231c27c29a33bd16a821f76cf5fc7ea675cbd313cc19a7f