Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a82b7a8f146cc31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 21:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cd08bae7ea9d2da62342c0b56928eb68 SHA-1: be94ba1ef6de9482c88c4cfbf5566a500eee6b95 SHA-256: 9a82b7a8f146cc317e2bd5eb7564524a3da00ccc74bb2b239f5a0c0c146023a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a spearphishing attachment designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098adc759bd6---woxixig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-6/20210706215053579442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1784ab5aca3823427b2f0baae0e08b82/tepepakaxisiluvutitodose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5efe4e5c96---51887457941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/70770740621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/remajekizaxuziwemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572ebcd4c47db8140c24c14f3440398c/fasusaropiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/zekazadoniwojino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/mumonagupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609488ec7e31d---bazare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///88172743251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquessolaresdenavarra.com/userfiles/files/nafoviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/ruvelonoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/16606914767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf2dm9k3l8e3tu0fac1ebffjf2/digowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o551gio1ha68tbsak0rltl43co/butametimamomixano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e264bd1bcc---guwevofumedowirinefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/101652042611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/66725516953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/74228261027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f33l21qga0ip6vcl6d25gnfdp7/gaxefinuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021716124581721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/javakobikagapolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/30137066882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gastrointestinal+physiology+johnson+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44b558f5fa88c07783804f73b8c1f3be/93701420090.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_off00012d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7E 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 376e4e349426a23dbf4d9912abc7c7de6d1aa60b81297fd8df7857f256c05210
font_01_sfnt_off00014752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14752 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F64 16528 bytes
SHA-256: b7f6134e95abe3cd5e5b1bef4e3b95ffbf3f2b87fb7d319eb7b556b0d1bb46d6