Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a8980cfd781954c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 08:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e7acfc8199d241717cd4000b477973af SHA-1: 947fd7143a62b51060f74db887c22c6b762cfc62 SHA-256: 9a8980cfd781954cef86b8dff08080c760051a1deae82515b4bd2683f2e1bc1f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to other malicious documents or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/ragexanegogabugekikafoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/27752371396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-22/20210922144512817774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/73559881689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/sexinajunewasuvozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/joxoragudaruzadenemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150f9473f09a---49468421633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents/files/rufokazezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631502585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux02.wadhost.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waduzuxupobadaluzitorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgelc.com/userfiles/file/20210914190447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g5eadciilhb6hdv7dq5krv7oj/59181079479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/kivupipeledorufasupoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.info/userfiles/files/24543673782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3efb629c02c7336f8c45f5e568fb6451/54757863277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/55159912144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/82519280849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/24223473160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/64962557423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a813efc47---96464306200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1599910475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137cfdbab6a4---sabezilopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353a9a3700f---76987101720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7d36b872394c47686031615c39042b/37059126135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+video+editor+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000b077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB077 15920 bytes
SHA-256: c18c149a660abe591043516a6ec449bc744bfb4918c4a1a6a08e2a8a08a71461
font_01_sfnt_off0000d801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD801 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae05ecd1bf5a7b81261bbd31c50bab800c25e7d17a94f04d85c874fd4a28fe0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1