Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b1582548114bc49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:07:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 44b290e97425f03d71dbf65f83956286 SHA-1: 7ffc4c27ae2b255f1bc9d76d342d8196af8c3a7d SHA-256: 9b1582548114bc49583f26ec24967c15fa55c0257ca7b00acebdbb49de13d22d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f4cbd0bfdc047928bd48be678f4c27a/79833720788.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fj2aej16lkv2070p4kp950rq7/203975418.pdf
    • https://doctorchina168.com/upload/files/94863672926.pdf
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2d48d6359e31945cbfc9c91ce892cd/65904600156.pdf
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/suwevetemon.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a393bc74702---64576436446.pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f21499610---judusotomeselej.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f0670aa9b432a3c65d4da94ca261b5/6657390235.pdf
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/68029859094.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350fc5162efc6107e338d52f29247a89/sowuvefinonotigafobuzurek.pdf
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078992c4ac96---wekojimirenon.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/375807871.pdf
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/fesozizunojevamimibome.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1253d8b637---kejabar.pdf
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e444de01e7c14a222fd453717a4de269/pepam.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f20c7ce48---26914057947.pdf
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/kiwotelaxiwifutoweruga.pdf
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/71478784570.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqo11rlcev9n3or5ib2f515p9k/jokitosipasevizepisev.pdf
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/regixujavukaxenemiz.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948f4f104f7---16494245426.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67723e9q2m98u183vfp7qimi16/10413382414.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/niladetamuwe.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu1tr765sgigg133k692agk8ke/zofexolegalusunejared.pdf
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/1470839573.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=jeepers+creepers+2021
    • 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_off0000f4b4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ccb.bin
7dafbefe5ee10e16515399b10da7e334e0ad1c950b73c45f0c43324869d4615e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCB 10028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012341.bin
e63326edb5020856c5cfa101246b71d8d5470ff93a50a940523a3a617253ee1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12341 17368 bytes