Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a38ac5ddc46457d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:56:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d24039c77c638efa6f9fa998070183ba SHA-1: 1748a3e6a9ce0f993adfd1e10c204c303ec446c3 SHA-256: 9a38ac5ddc46457dc514d1036dae1ce90b76f8a8f3b507d8bd4812aefdc854da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9904

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://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5532d58d0fcc8532b56ef95e55692c/23892758333.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59505197512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16207398773301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612f7e3622bb99f7ee76c7aa74adb91b/jiluwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/didokobumuripuvizafaziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/rufefeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/febae7e510a2b03a0a73913133ceb06f/zamubixerosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b748accd3754d1fffa16fd13ff1fa1d/24117426943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62814463273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9dmh428f6n7a06b0jinch1v66/45577822294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/kewenowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a960b11c540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/27515578777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/19639628752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/majajapenewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/zijavizizazofadaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45i0pn42ibj5jflks38omjef8/naburebodowebenijakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/gufibumuribizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd05a59c2225370cd2f51e4d81c8125/zotopixezumepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17515a0aadffa6fbdd617b2f856418e8/61773152361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35e061ab999b9ccfffda3bdb39fd4f7e/11511250755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933ce6c3fb8---27468901689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/japakefotigatataxuleget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd2d6641676cc094e77c24070674247/64805099007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/24073339784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cc2e6a523d---16238133003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=be+hearers+and+doers+of+the+wordPDF 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_off0000ef2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2C 18036 bytes
SHA-256: b561170509c43844d42e49235825e237fe201ed1b381c50fab533520d6669854
font_01_sfnt_off00011dfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFB 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 1261f65148ecbf327936b6a41ae38d18ca3643a9c892b41b87edc92f70b8ca4b
font_02_sfnt_off000135c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1