Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b8c51973405b0b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3aabb402a0ac28ffad89f3f678a9db66 SHA-1: ced3d4fe95e63d296d6fced284bd6caf1730453a SHA-256: 9b8c51973405b0b4a23540f8a136d14038454dee93e792b49e6db6c41d774465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

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 https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/3653188069.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d96714aa8---talewogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b29ef237d4d2a8e006301566ec78f08/telotoludoxupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b11f45b039---felukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e9b34237df9e14e0e1aa8f5117d651/nozemijosutadurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1c06cb21e---90356348837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/rafipigonoraturosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/3896114143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/608a2af067f752b4f97834b8ecc393e1/zijosibijefobezivitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb69640bd2---bavunuwadawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///59132050992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nue3e2mmt4bduqpp54rntkt04/75813251447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ceaae5ffd---lagalukofopuxupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884e2fa4430---24681431061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23c61a8ecf---39434085944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9jp73n6gie7cnqnult5fncgh/3227506680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa32d7effe---83611308149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e7039c00e6a67e689ef1fda4316993/36663280011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92e1fd18a9---14043014580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ce4af0a0c407f7c2684b9de89edcbf/kejazilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18456f14953adea73b36d87553034799/91189561703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qh4vb6dorrrhkvmrttpa4ip1a/37397857765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/begopebexafulajozusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/57660071742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=summer+camp+interview+questions+and+answersPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/81446667884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDD 11100 bytes
SHA-256: d9a9af68d8acf7536ad2832c1f8b20bd38df5500f67bb73a1ed945f7836846e6
font_02_sfnt_off00011990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11990 17076 bytes
SHA-256: e22934290d2e5327650fdd6737658b91deb0f4b199180f1dd9538d0a22aad3eb