Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b4b7880fa7d9ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-24 10:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e0c8e7accff2696768d7b5d179d448b7 SHA-1: ce1d8b19640513920146732b719c17bffcea987c SHA-256: 9b4b7880fa7d9ff9296d841fb9f02720e84fa9e62a137e32554b7e45df1d4c9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, including one at http://itaindustrial.com.br. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to salary adjustments, suggesting a social engineering lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c4b2a67f3ebf23fdb241117aa63b0d/35597114108.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d692335b4e4ec74001fe37b42005a1/tugidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck39dcgrs1grrbq7ul0pgte9m5/figuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5918d1a4d8ff4fcb550ec8106609983/5593312008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fd65b0f46---13014970123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7918087324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2abb80b944---fobodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f560943e3---kemidipunavizezitesunemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/xuwaruvasakukosulodomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/xidujelozadoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/73420981718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fivelqvc4fe0j5f8mjvefedmq4/foxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac653d1753c---movekuvodejofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901d3cb3ceb---nawiwulaxejisagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/jomaxidupoxipojupokigepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k2gat93tkfb745h1iellhfeht/87238858094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747765cc75f---87827965672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=adjusting+entries+for+salariesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE91 5140 bytes
SHA-256: be08aa980bcf38d5490b401bb4d27b1aad0b1d9277c06b9f0dcd9913e76f56ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF021 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 60677f59c6d39ec47b4f86038e92c37cfa9234fd79a211763d8034b691697594