Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a64966203ee9b46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 02:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6019806186db9514c3643ac7fb1fe744 SHA-1: c3cf177c0b5954016771428811b5b48d65ea1c43 SHA-256: 9a64966203ee9b461472418b7b8054b84e5f58304764ac22ec6ec607397e6453
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest the document is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tucker+carlson+net+worth PDF link annotation
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28614251a0---luberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46a9b0006f2efdf905f7f891862c6c1/48555374932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575bb693ac8c3044e97a62d210ce2ca7/81261519228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/miganozonejizukiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n082h6lbh4ikff0jdpo14j6rbn/18212858545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/82629882447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a70c6dee1547471b53bb64d69d3cbfe/76057332485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc6f657a07---tunuxalupodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9pol6msn6bpehfjhkafpd8cv5/merotaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611799fd002f4---litin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/77905979804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/96058025263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4adfe0b2eecb1f5cc1caa72e64e7316/54190004218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22424440580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/kiwamujalikatapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/1512430186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecbb274a1ada6545836a5a220ea49162/remoxagiladejifebejugepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/puresuzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1imhv3thakp53tkvb4bord9r3/58197380612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimizosapexinagajimogaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8afb9e596---36135162091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/keleritulilutosuvurixogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC397 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA9 15988 bytes
SHA-256: 71e963bff53341aea22019eda4c30059be64a43ab5c762c5fffa5d3507258d04
font_02_sfnt_off000103d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D9 10476 bytes
SHA-256: e1dbbc28473e7c123b02f05aa8f72c75f69b72fa20013c627710013aae8a22b1

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