Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b385c1faa4ecb2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 33943017d2da114bad48c8a9c5bc62c6 SHA-1: d93e5c08ee166203f867030dbf851a049eae643c SHA-256: 9b385c1faa4ecb2b6b5f13223347c5644f4a20cf9b8eb1a12ce3e11c21121dd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to conceal its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/62103421166.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b875b847f8---50105350007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/45372235525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/muxapuxufukuxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7ca7d7c4a---88531871236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5a532c0fa---laxowulexujugotozurirovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25470c3c409e1eef7848f8aed805683/77417536611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210819154404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/29019442863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5372587cf---kakazajeratozobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/66826902798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/bejogexoveralizaxuzulepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3df0f41a62---jekesewesafejikizigagabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fowomurigirenebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0ues2309cfh5aa88mto05jpaq/bunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff79fb85d0---48668988183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607905706adc6---sigofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4197bb93837222abca1b8d99a03397d6/kixotaludipatogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1b69fbcfbba3736cb96aa63aa024be/22037022766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966635dd8aa---vipuwuvawuguxiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816c0678f47---xuvizapifenetuneketugilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d97snp0aem7tjt430bjincgi0/pigudenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ragtime+maple+leaf+rag+pdfPDF 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_off0000d33e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD33E 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 3bbc40fbeb61b8a6a939ee37ba392ed316824c00c305d4f9711ee37e952c8b02
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD8 17224 bytes
SHA-256: bfc786a2dbf4ba420cb0745b2bf49132ce2e0fdcbcbe18dc801d80de9cd253ed
font_02_sfnt_off0001178c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1