Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd51a69116bf8f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

144.6 KB Created: 2021-08-18 16:24:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e9e6a967559533cc06ea88fabb657cb0 SHA-1: e9e6f28e4ecd2af8608a2a4abd4fde918aaeab9b SHA-256: 9bd51a69116bf8f801725b0435f7feef3400f142553c0c1e8f6ee4b11568d192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9460

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://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52739b44902dd2706fb31be534ce6b48/263644511.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45600346669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/84667588623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/53998605675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/kakuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2ff672cde---88665393133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads//files/202108110451037808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/miwusadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ada80b0402bf729daf1af2664c946df/gozopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88b22df10---42637935358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derofeputomokulinalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/puxugejeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f2bbdf33a---nawutininexuvidowijodavig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a533c5aae50---fepijibibepabovuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/62357750632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd8a984a0b---22563082360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/pexolumilojapelunebiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu9th7n9rfuaplo5kbco0l0gj9/wigivijutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b901cce9cc---pakarefivitasovavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g54pm6o3uil3eq303tivmiaru6/ripozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af132bc430---71985319845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/pofurulizaxiziloxuwizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27d5c8077b---55175546927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f06b3dcca5c---goden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=capitulo+5b+repaso+crossword+answersPDF 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_off0001d32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D32F 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 197bb8c2cfcf443ed14fde68581dc7397cedacb08842550fb7366368dc60307d
font_01_sfnt_off0001ecc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ECC0 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 56e32a4d057e2caaea3f5208ab1114ed2c88a3c9e3846b54e3afc51422ddc33b
font_02_sfnt_off00021a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21A91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1