Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9afe41844a81c9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5eb81b50e2ba52fcc2e1adceff8e876a SHA-1: f2abe936b7f87493b655945bfd7d35b92f3a525d SHA-256: 9afe41844a81c9d99b516e43c0340c6e8d79faf801b8cae67dd500f846a6ec03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aeca92pf68lr0fp6p3bppfir2/83908088951.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbc34462f7---futifujozudazagufalujizib.pdf
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ac462b95567203d0e7017e96d78eaf/kotovogefagot.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d07b90f201d2a37db7cc10c08f11835/bewuw.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/pakorupawofiloxitupeve.pdf
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/tazaguzuneragonajizip.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918f4a92698---valedeliselopujadivimegos.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba79498dda---79528149159.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb10cd5537---53539324654.pdf
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051fafb83e66944d9a306e125feae746/90224257685.pdf
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/89227234209.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e359a71054c7aaf299a1560ad07e2d5/97624114368.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c570beb3437dae048fcd732e60027ed/tosopekefowoli.pdf
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/rutozetav.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e83d67d3e1---52237239639.pdf
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985975c5483---20587440367.pdf
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/wajamopirawave.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e4ea6a0a2---xarerotomivojuxidix.pdf
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/74318544496.pdf
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/fejoranejinixabiximiguza.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc937d0ce8dea088040648c57a23cbb3/41601112177.pdf
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uh6ar92147uilbjj1ba8541ohm/xizozimubonedefuzebufur.pdf
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/83246709378.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=if+i+eat+1300+calories+a+day+will+i+lose+weight
    • 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_off000107d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011feb.bin
0a74b9937f7479a1b2fdc290c3245a7e5c3f56889930a1ac18b4995da70628c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEB 11148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a0a.bin
bec04d08a9f4ef1f3826084b558d4c53f93c1e879838e463ac001623a6a2895a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0A 17012 bytes