Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bf8b18f36d424b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 229a46b71f6fd955778cdcdecbcc6ef5 SHA-1: 31175fc0b105db89454fb841aba1c2560bf1c266 SHA-256: 9bf8b18f36d424b7e2716c7698336daf104dcf48e6df88683484e7f27a561f7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or phish for credentials.

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 https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091dae9c53ff---surusajeviduvukisafaxataj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727075baef2---70770604698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adadf861e02---37451990615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb7cedv6dfjfqp614b9m2rjfrm/natibojexazobava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0073db4e9e12ab8e713b8eb8614a89/gefetomalepipobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefudojaluwune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/7732060498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5214d03c58---15629934788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b4a3f2cbb---55664095728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c9d453677---68613974444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/19536565213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///82646467287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a701dd45cf0---94067854254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a09142526---zunolata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/zopoliweralukuvipazepidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/nuxipizuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b929122d545---4678189471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59caca31a739c8e2c85249d4ce448791/ratag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a16aaa5c3e---tadipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/savuloxevajubobidemutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18532afe9d---66904264440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5153bc69a---jejefetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/gifawumunigolonafunanataw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817f75f7ed---wasoxevipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733a93273e1---ginesudavunovabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+when+your+bored+at+schoolPDF 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_off000102a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A8 17644 bytes
SHA-256: fab93b6b45980e7f6fc5b3d304fa941decfe5a060f98c57222ccafa0d42bde2c
font_01_sfnt_off0001303d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1303D 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 618edc4eeed5c2f23cdde57dcbb592b91fe41c551f4c789e48f64d192d9d0a5a
font_02_sfnt_off00014933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14933 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1