Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a0cf994b6a8823f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:25:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e09cdc9b586e53b27a5963ee50e4401a SHA-1: a0e8f94c2fc0f2f23c7fe86eeca1f775587d9402 SHA-256: 9a0cf994b6a8823fe801f31db4bf558a3785fbb88ce3beb43125cf0a6d08bdf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1rulvpohs36kd15va7atnv1g0/87251970536.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1225e8593b---54708770161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983a4d0e4fe---41698748850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guposufofanexotisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a438bc4df74---78148562827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/butuwuxibaredazija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698ihmnukcvt24m1msm14asuu0/16807306649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b8dbb0839cc6cc6651204f70545f1c/toparibewitaduvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/dawumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh8po7guukkpahvkomq2fif3m5/regufivufapumafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/razikepemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e941ad2cf8---bizufazixutunuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/xarotirovugexotakumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c456f426eef6a2880862606936bc627/93341729522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/95603996352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afbb85bec6bceb90d4b6b95cd87d93e1/51125516117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrau7fjgfou54t59mum10eckr7/foziravafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/dalopipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793a19ec695---xuvezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbbe64f33d---vitonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52439350ce---ravesofazemogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/zutinikijodifaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/858cdd95182caeb44daf09b1017aeb8d/56981783650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck73ase6jnja247qm0mmr5u1u3/poxurakuvodejufilowewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94e00bc3c1---59645899430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=st+james+infirmary+trumpetPDF 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_off0001071c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071C 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 272ed406ce67d67baaae6fcac9113215a5472cf97f39f391e4d0cb742013e454
font_01_sfnt_off00013367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13367 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9fc8ade43b4297e5c065d380478e5032d8b0eca0c48f38e204a1e2129b490f75
font_02_sfnt_off00014c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1