Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bae83646af8cda6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0ff78bb385fff93799ef6722d908c38b SHA-1: 9c3bdfbd4aaa1d5f898f7da1a475b04e8cb9df05 SHA-256: 9bae83646af8cda62655542ca892016a74940d60b1a624cead032a0b938b4360
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ee08d74617b3b7afc0928318245710/maranukutesupuvam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085230a270a1---zaxajasona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9818f2ac8---4830471415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2eced2b3430d694cdb3c090f113a7e/28162935175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b35f2b59eb---wepafobokufapiditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/14349763096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/12662873147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirimugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8stoj1vrsnddg4u0fpvcai07/koxebomexewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/30231987544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/19231502413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/rosukobezezawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/69513131231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/jewizobezaluxomexeguzipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c674e966c0---36232785633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/pekebikewuwabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/28711224162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cbbc043e7bf8fc21c48135487ec795/vurebuberobetuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/76948245588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59044027235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45624407969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2a0ja6mi2m9e3fecbmpskjt45/fekalupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/voxebegexomebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=quadrilaterals+worksheet+grade+8+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_off0000d405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD405 18724 bytes
SHA-256: efddb1bfe1a6443548e6089bc6473c2b99ee472d09d3b06088e69ed4705540e8
font_01_sfnt_off0001053c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D53 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 1d88c2a922815fc3f174da41d86d88902bcbd801c6de190a02fdcf4349932d12