Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b66c102af0a6d7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 361df738c73f7fc7274ce35aee753e4f SHA-1: 1240cd84d2a506a88fc6eb5fe10519c2b3205c01 SHA-256: 9b66c102af0a6d7dd6b42dc9579614abe984104e5198ae81b6253b94a05321a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the 'formcraft' or 'super-forms' plugins for file uploads. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d446e4e49f---rukiban.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3fdb517b9---giwugafuwotumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bb7f8c351f4c93622749ce349a134d2/83773745876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1df8063aad7ce48f850af5ec5a6ca8/vizeboxureva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97262b054480e9b3b669f49bb4154334/nerovijorekabipebojude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/wawonirusugexevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcf1fbd0de---xejuvarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/sumezirokuxove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d08b035d8d7ceb977ea79010a7688f1f/58585349070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/77498431229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/75274192413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a86608340---vamonorapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b561be4e70e---95624787237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/19639681995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078dc9a44e20---787177486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927396dfbee---44191019787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/31187853700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8b8d564b07cdfa00c713a8a3610073/9027540518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffcm357qlndg1b9pk7ju4robc1/kelujigesuwojazute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagetabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b7f508c301f6daeed3edfb750f1f47/nozegatizufadirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/rabele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be93190afb10ec63ec555761489f7f64/58955266560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=kjv+bible+without+chapters+and+verses+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_off0000ecce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCE 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 83a9470f304e8d7b75020ab5dd66113c15cbf4b0eeb49173e1176d77cf00a050
font_01_sfnt_off00011863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11863 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001307a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307A 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 662f3e1beaf58361d9e3eb7a9315af0860205f1cb43b6783365e5807fc5e8017