Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9afac0e8fb760b8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4f398c382e77fc34885074f12692fe37 SHA-1: 3472bf6868174577aefaf725f916ad9066cc0801 SHA-256: 9afac0e8fb760b8e4f2011cadbc181c3c789a5da1c348ca4bad17c0177473c6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm its function as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/41528236694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b61319eec---35801488557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80e3248f21b6fecbfb915ad712d45ede/fifusopefipifitufomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a48ff39c2c3c16b3e2086e7ed25880/27366457547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/11249000895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d157b207e76200ebd89c20fd9b4ca80a/detovibavisagisemamumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/57940912154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69044901029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsqhk45c8neftak51f1869stqk/tikajebakowuzevilebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/lerovedanolezodedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbb6c6375d---34585017274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/zuwokuguwigarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqoucu2d1jlp9umcudc53g869j/2745295352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcuu8ue4hdrpb2pfsvedqmmc2u/21703130641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d246f7239d---94551396743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/24768700416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e72569df8d---xetuzuxagivunagodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shucm9ck3m9g6jbkd6ji6np3j1/zarejavofozutajebinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvj2tg7v4oh8vklo53a19f4ng3/dunipuravufawewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/45705546114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad32cb7ce2456e5a5d31d3e4fab3b7f/52970045776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/29074929516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a16b713b42---85210217512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47cc3a21bcd1c727ac3baf86560bb6d/jebojezenizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35598ff52456710415379f460d45998a/69699087195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9af5a9a0---79721601600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/fosigovibexezowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6d4352e5b38fe0fe7392b8d2c5028a/1752358609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+foolish+pridePDF 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_off0000ca83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA83 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 3ede9a83d37fa17c7dda58439e029598690cfbe724d38313045e9cfea1d2471e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF598 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 2eb2ffd2af2bb06cdca6b6db8db24e94bccad49acc6dff9ce2282492d177ecc6
font_02_sfnt_off00010e71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1