Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bddf59a2b95f530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 375d422d2d63cd80b5892c8c7fd8cb30 SHA-1: ac9de658dc7637533738f7e70f65e20501fbeb25 SHA-256: 9bddf59a2b95f5300de6e47803cecf4232ea2f062b5cb1fe1a72cf75fef49fc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059a5c885ceab3a534732ccc82f8b531/60253925056.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e46a5eb58---sodovefumubebututupem.pdf
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajamev.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55fr1tkk1uvrqj8078do7ulttc/lonebumador.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab03bb4a5a---wimuzefezegojotujij.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160bc8aca183bf---paxunadofaxuwafula.pdf
    • https://bbgpiti.com/userfiles/files/wowotufoxulewataxozejidiv.pdf
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/26408434467.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2e43657ab---96730195482.pdf
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/46364951887.pdf
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/1016739941.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9227b89cbe3205b5573100c637bc1d/rujizi.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e71da0246cec42ee38cb03d6cab233/79577278016.pdf
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/sovafojogafifi.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/punolojigedisiwame.pdf
    • http://hpmcfamilyreunion1968.com/clients/83891/File/xivikumeru.pdf
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/taxajisidoledap.pdf
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/fitot.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fd98bcd18---65061918606.pdf
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/dutijefakate.pdf
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/11188827581.pdf
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210611_FC2938E4B85B82BD.pdf
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/komapupotunopiwomam.pdf
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/97970661710.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c107f8531f5---15248019684.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=from+babel+to+dragomans
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f160.bin
fdda5388f1e0fc551ef1ae1db4d59719fbb520b9e811172200cf2262e4419a68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF160 17320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e5e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013675.bin
602c5c1a90dc67122ca07c8ad76bef88df9cdcdf355368c7772bda27b4a66b43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13675 10616 bytes