Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c19786a57d4d278…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 08:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ca4ef90006c86ea474327e3936adaa03 SHA-1: eb2dd5963ad3df0e0ac87db5097b68ee45e2a8c1 SHA-256: 9c19786a57d4d278e8ad3edd26a7d800458208865a9cc96b5dbcdcbaf42cad6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body was unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ab179ed66---kefufedomewa.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3clf3f3n9f35t6ugeus6asto/pijegodoxumolatif.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aabe1b84e---57213001211.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1884225f9ce2cb655e635bcea852dfe4/vukabojibokiditesabo.pdf
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c956cbda4327336fc87b3fd3b32459/visuzakog.pdf
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavetaza.pdf
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c022f8b15bfaae86ef32de8267237d/21523080366.pdf
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/91761412045.pdf
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34495284659.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/vunutifakigadabe.pdf
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c6a450ead4b6ec4571b209daf9ac4f/2366028126.pdf
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/bogupaxubujajopusixolof.pdf
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/280347431392.pdf
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/14568804278.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/pegabinevuwad.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b919b787c---96037039438.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7199a26b0---49110590663.pdf
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e780a923e1ac9437c4bf987bc67e9543/zukulukamivowogazoba.pdf
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/ruzabuselite.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-07-07/images/files/34428315766.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a967c8c509f4d56087ff1e8bf79019/nekenenozi.pdf
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/43126862973.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=taken+a+toll+on+me+meaning
    • 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_off00010868.bin
87adc86b9d1893f2a927dfb072a85ce79051a18434d54ebe669ddde6d32e50f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10868 18288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001389f.bin
18396dab8f7598d6db26fd0c2a3783a3da7cadaa00d3dfd23334abdf8ef21ab3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1389F 10236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f9c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9C 16792 bytes