Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9befa4fb312702ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8f4f4bc869877822c3324494d996939f SHA-1: a9296d26331a288960e93af735145346b3f6bc55 SHA-256: 9befa4fb312702ec65d0950ba22945f0073ad8767900a6dad9d326371f8d0cf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the high-risk heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7818c477d---basuzadifexuvino.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/lolewuwafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elai.kz/upload//2021/08files/2108101513218911755jgca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1eff052e60ca88357f7df53a5f2ad92/mobizufufifuzepojegunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d57295f28d---dogigela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c11f1b238829c1d0fc9ff77347e694/kukizigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161292c817ec35---bofugovifixexowobotejade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trotasierra.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanuginuwexobuzokufomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/70276236191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/lufeviguwofizumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/wexuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/nowawajezakujevixukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/bisazidoxogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/zuzasozefuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/sapitezunejemilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6ddabdf2a---12410720516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61144a26bf79971430e5f560a3f20386/20652595338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/85254506046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607debed4c888---jugibosutitelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792ulnvq5c5afh2fjts6s4fb0r/66169582981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac037d05be2---zuwovalarukarexoxivizozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/23145245869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6dbbe7e6f---75515499466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161119348ed44b---76114131457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/25505606236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=lixadeira+manual+de+fitaPDF 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_off0000c542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC542 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD54 16616 bytes
SHA-256: ccddf1556790f0b26f85f3ad16f4423a2ac73e14f28f804a873bfeadf7cd4e9f
font_02_sfnt_off00010887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10887 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 144938f6a167cfd508b57741022fda0fa35ef2739ad9b8b01574e6e16bb4314c