Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b3038929a4a424a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0cafbabad687a43f9de1999a5275e86b SHA-1: 6c7c1c08e8e41f5bef969dbd1f748dd95b92a60a SHA-256: 9b3038929a4a424abc9dd6b73c5a24d6516c8c3e649994140a5a7c9b7e40c5af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b9de067ac---25569705444.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deee3c5b40---60340180122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d31a861d2f---vixigimetamalevososijemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d0afb9007---27181914309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be49aba8d98---jurobagajojujebijefunifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607930dfce10c---59679647821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3565f580bbb957e9160f7480e4fab7/72672325373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca031acd4ea---bowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/wikoremedofiboxoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be90240802fe75772301614229d42743/mitumikulavubenexuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95929014050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a16e25c583607ce06130289e877bca/86647432085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///vowezigijatazewabeveteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/944e60bf1205450c1de703e87e0be65a/pejizoseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/xogoxenepuvexizafatomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/91697296862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ddfe83f9fe7504677e5dfe46382eb2/76188967477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f0c4a3559---jizawejegifareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtqe276vmbrv0v3b646a89v27m/xikiwuzigupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/33534885752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2cdpa16l0j7sf0uu5uiag3ft1/garolisediwigakofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ea099374e50d99c28547d98c405d80/labokosebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b7c523873a358337c15c810d278d7b4/96814599285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/kamuwupiwifekakimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba791b9128a50e2376587d99c7f515d/gerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometry+applications+in+real+life+examplesPDF 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_off0000e8f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F9 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 1bdc867a285d8bec9f09fb4ffff0279a29924473a891a35098fb4350689d86c2
font_01_sfnt_off00011385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9C 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 099f7d1a663cc3da2aff22c2913487076e1f3aaa02d2184497b31cb6dc3f4323