Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9abdd952c99634ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 01:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a876556eb66060cff8d65fa5d536acb SHA-1: 6a31e4a77fbca109843a21d1b102c4df2af511af SHA-256: 9abdd952c99634edc0b40785a7581d6126fc71dff182fc63c3abcd5177a2f8f9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. These links are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fja11gcp17ruv71l18stebdrm0/46798881890.pdf
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/raziz.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d07627768---83755235325.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/6591541578.pdf
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/77538079100.pdf
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210716/file/16264623808567.pdf
    • https://chachachat.info/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipivufivi.pdf
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091fa704b143---80009837346.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d2450ca25af9a2032545780c3150e9/dusezudij.pdf
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87fa328fa---87929792805.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0452bf985080f693a06635ed19f9afb6/37301546099.pdf
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717117aab65---tidetemolegiv.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkq4rkm2up256tth4hno2ku7p3/50661179257.pdf
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/navazewibifujixulobiji.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797ff1a3cf2---deseti.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a931f5126b7---wuforodex.pdf
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalerinirumozakusixani.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33da55ae02496cd24b1c5ecf0a2cf031/53044101775.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c615098a6---boran.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ec1783490---bezamexarisolero.pdf
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/39262997691.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+gta+v+lspdfr
    • 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_off0000d1d4.bin
f9401d67cace3bec089f4b7f4694e2dc6c71d62f373810313962eccc5b79c4f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D4 10684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea38.bin
61f2a4e512d225b5d9b1dfe82c2331724f6f509e20e97ad31404463a82dc20e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA38 15984 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BD 16792 bytes