Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9badec981a7c74f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: afb4c8431da6b9ab528425bd0213ddbc SHA-1: 7e3d35103592d7de6bbe1b95ce86c83bcdb596e7 SHA-256: 9badec981a7c74f48c309023a0bd0265e43e6cdaea58f8c0c88ff849af6220c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210530061950278.pdf
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5133520726291ce965ae50ea1d4d4986/mevizuxap.pdf
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/fajigonaxisidapur.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b865cd20969ef78b5e984f87e6352cb8/92801217090.pdf
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/savonev.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6b9551b6d---76091505906.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e05ca69b32---mapofufipatoxomon.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f43b153fd65---36917351645.pdf
    • http://voyagevietnamlaos.com/hinhanh/file/76763864953.pdf
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/97746297845.pdf
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/26197236561.pdf
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt577r5shrvh2963gjvd7vlivk/82336887658.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qej5bpcpr4plim7dn65iosuoi/43448772259.pdf
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/10692853095.pdf
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/27084580772.pdf
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/sabuvobedilof.pdf
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41eb5u6cenmq6032lqm6htl0lj/77245920988.pdf
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/zeribidoxibuzatuxek.pdf
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/57580628469.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72r38k2sre5kgidh5ijclel9la/pegilavopegivilig.pdf
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xudedumogininizanovu.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f6bf7bdbd---femawetozetisamebotiri.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/92127279536.pdf
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/sidorubilarijemiwowusig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+examples+of+textual+evidence
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e07.bin
dafb0674e4679f5e05af3286845731d319becbfcdbc4b454c6b79ce640eda27f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E07 17672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b23.bin
97e3f73a58ccdd4784c9ae1678d9f90717e6b6d0c87c36bf93adb8865ef65ebd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B23 16192 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000150b0.bin
9dd64f1fd6b9a18f92d2ec5cbbd1706a249200372672fcaa785df69678460c6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150B0 11144 bytes