Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a38eb3c9a50363a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c8f2402372d7eb2388e7c9ed811fcdae SHA-1: aba428e62a4142c1143ab5b58b223e00bba30d99 SHA-256: 9a38eb3c9a50363a99246fbb3a9bfea9a7c006e39ae44564f1e7d170d04c9942
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting PDF files via common vulnerable plugins like 'formcraft' and 'super-forms' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e43bca9aae---metapibegupisojisurexazeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46eb1a583dcc5b46e6b6597ba793b398/44848715598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9301bd63d4---39048705030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/satedemubegaborizafurebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210701_113302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/nenasiraxawubuzilunimatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/36651337880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed197f18b4811adfbedd4be299283347/zunezurujukovanawivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/tupesejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/ninitufijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/rabolobajimusewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ea22924b---badijokovudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fevusoziresogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02a8f15633---kupijako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/gojegipadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b93e9197e---81531840072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/69274647129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/25787907919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/tojuvabulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suapaiatuipelehakefamily.com/clients/80707/File/11441047349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eprgvjdksivueg9h80cggt53h2/76905941226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7028corkdrvbv57mkdhjdif4jg/34246555740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/19809911168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c750c68f9f---45986856792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8373c8d6b157265a731da73de709a22/sojobowibepenejoxureji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=human+spermatogenesis+pdfPDF 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_off0000e82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE82F 10884 bytes
SHA-256: bbd85b1421c58a1a5e45cb0d05e6975a8a30376950316f70a34f592f90f09155
font_01_sfnt_off00010116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10116 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 852cfbcd6887cb0fb2b9d17c7cbe1742d65b4aaa9f47cec3eacb79f41a227a41
font_02_sfnt_off00012e69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1