Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b29963520c13acd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e1a8cde74a92788f3080746564f3c0ed SHA-1: 5df52324fa7cb535d55ccb18d84b2b3449be44ca SHA-256: 9b29963520c13acd50ef4c2c49113aa5dec2f4265f0c45e8935400156a96a983
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a pattern of hosting malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+methods+for+solving+nonlinear+equations
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882c8a6ee57---88172426458.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5207a6a28606d0ec7c18daf1c0c116d/421502891.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc53cc76e0f---82927965727.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd70e0e437---37727410417.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e976bd19727---51570899201.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079547b4adf9---mogoluwuvodujidikun.pdf
    • http://edison76.com/clients/5/54/54c13950cbd15a81e6fb4362eab8f273/File/15636517538.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6db1c34eeaec83ece4741e887da7fd6/figefujepugexidimomuleret.pdf
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonijadedofelepepofusar.pdf
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/nobojusujudekobururuz.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706cb5ab2b2---sufijajedubek.pdf
    • http://armanetti.com/images/kotuzugixizeru.pdf
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu03dkemgpbs50m4kmm6oh5a70/gojanululazunavozupo.pdf
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/79744093713.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/fededimedokifug.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d84127ea5b---rizubuzivoraw.pdf
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/48230739580.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93u3uavvrvj41iiiv2946e4e32/29428041330.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01fc9db7074589e015112b5feaefa54/42544730710.pdf
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/70820554539.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa423003d47---34133878764.pdf
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/14604907602.pdf
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/61656207183.pdf
    • 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_off0000f054.bin
567225e0829863b1361f0b4e58318edddc0854454b54b4d1ddb52130418630dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF054 17732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f0d.bin
844d2b297c43d89b2a943ecbb2bc348bc2588b876f9ab5771ebbfa20b8812ed6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0D 11212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138a1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138A1 16792 bytes