Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9adbaf4f7a611ab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 18:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0835fc90cbccdaacbefbc09ab34614a2 SHA-1: 6702c099e2a87714164c26293c1922020c230204 SHA-256: 9adbaf4f7a611ab483538e714cd2a6cff9102e186075373d39ae3f6282134964
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 phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, including a WordPress upload directory. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b9fead6be---pibazudibusidezuperade.pdf
    • https://www.elshandmadedesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68648166371.pdf
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/78724923775.pdf
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/wisosuleva.pdf
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210905175028_590845920.pdf
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoruzeritonasifefe.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebefb0b73a7a6eb92e8a1de5eab0f7b/mevufijuxituxo.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b965796835---viruziwuvaxamasowomuzuga.pdf
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/lakizu.pdf
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/88577608602.pdf
    • https://lyna-garage.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/sanoxupamu.pdf
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/57495805129.pdf
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/19226897386.pdf
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62180434623.pdf
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/21724197452.pdf
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/romatavuke.pdf
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15949148463.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614336ee9864a---19974167413.pdf
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liboz.pdf
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/ziximidolituto.pdf
    • https://exhibitproplus.epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/39627286925.pdf
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/juranopuguxigoxevude.pdf
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94534290340.pdf
    • http://tpfish.com.taipei/archive/upload/files/39608450019.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+watch+movies+online+free+without+downloading
    • 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_off0000b085.bin
066a582e0a3f9bbbbea0352821564c439070c6e3b3d9167c67e78dd297c2dde5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB085 11164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca3a.bin
1300959efb1fb2d0fedb4ca6e1b91a9059e123c2f9d6996ae8ee32dd176adc0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA3A 14780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeb0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 16792 bytes