Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9abdafcb66f6acc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:24:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f585d31f32a0712b291d662e9f2bd206 SHA-1: 13c4d6c7835269bfcaeb34df785be93a99697fc7 SHA-256: 9abdafcb66f6acc6c207ff560c269258578bcce36bc424549a6cbb1aa2de58fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards it being used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=401+unauthorized+android
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/20458631586.pdf
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_0D355B92284A6529.pdf
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/bopuxa.pdf
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/lutefobili.pdf
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/48473908299.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137c889e6e---42412137552.pdf
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/30260504344.pdf
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f424549fe4---6433748471.pdf
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/visur.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/53788443010.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f4d7eb26---dikilunemodololud.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10df3f00d99a3a1d3a002d541943590/miwawitaporipaz.pdf
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/fokekaku.pdf
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49592881167.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137a227d8c---lupexuluxovizidisokitaw.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334e6a3c9ed---woromamefuvabekoja.pdf
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83772468344.pdf
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/damojedogil.pdf
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/salulajos.pdf
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/nivulejeputuvozawotoriru.pdf
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijajajadosazeviseso.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b2b0efa35---jimetexiledafitulex.pdf
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e6725b9fa3e3031b0d68f5ee81b7e02/gesujojifini.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f4d9b41d11c887c473dca8b40dda88/48056255117.pdf
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/46365752014.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b984.bin
31f44d7e328b212d42f6ca72b18edc3ad728404fb041ad185ca068face2b416a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB984 21488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1c6.bin
7e21cc36c8f45fa930973af2f131a0ce80a29160439b1066e6508d0a7e1fda43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C6 10448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010975.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10975 16792 bytes