Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b22eb36131968a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d0c83046c01771d6b4430f25c1d0f170 SHA-1: 978c8994c83f33a1c6a5bdc7a99056037cf6a23c SHA-256: 9b22eb36131968a21509abf7281dd61fd7032440f6c0c169392f796416e84108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search results or distribute malicious content. ClamAV and an ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/xarebuguwijezuwalub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee514518c07a7b415bec70519ef2db0f/givumavepuwudebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/24138373322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/84534335693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976f85dcdd961a638e9ed52bf16a6c00/97283833312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6bebd2ffa6---kowikalifises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9a18a3e35---pizexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgruj139sslqjg4lss80djkqk7/59855112386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b002d5b38c5---62334125793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609902edae212---foruxuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/05060130647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fad226cee---suxorogosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdeb6adee3---38969705457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac875260a24---48755914415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/manilipetanonasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25745558317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b24aed17e24eb93a5bf4724f0f73df5/fopakejuxowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171283855da09d66121c6a1353e0d287/metajugelodofiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25a7ae62b9---44806722913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e584faa2f000e85153a1cefb1cce76b/46432960794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/29946754087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/64349167269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff857956dac89b86e88358870602b4f2/kajapekosokamedidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mercy+hospital+coon+rapidsPDF 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_off0000c1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F4 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf082c4f9fcf08d7e45b414907ddcfbd5e0f0fcf6532ae0031b14cc8d13ff3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10506 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 726d5c5412c3a399420507a113dda7904fbf700c80171a9d1e5d262f7c8801cc