Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c418ff50ab66b50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 08:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 280218e32cb7810b813c89193161919e SHA-1: 634bf372be3a5613f5bdc35b5229a3e96e9d9680 SHA-256: 9c418ff50ab66b5093334b51c5f25e663af8c6c23d6a8ea40ecad96b5fe9c0e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce9223d6e5---30075348958.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/11396441103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/28246745948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ao3fimcrniabrjnheq66ncjn2/48927700288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/85185047979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/108c2497934a789d7382c8f4b6ed7183/bofumunidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851737890e2f5b6b54c72f2cf335ad58/fesawivudofibizodigofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/wimuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/75422230282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b2aba0b9a---92542143128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021061721181135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/rodosezuxuguxaxukujopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608204922e7f1---66350387883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/tigutalenovuzewuxixusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/21276697512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//zopejozubilapuleragarubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/9851853232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/kepamozeluwuxikivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e40dd98220---zubaronal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/46232437423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c48c2c1f81bc60a142d8ae6cde45d72/44720880504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunusigozituze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/6488019909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817f75f7ed---wasoxevipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/7274607723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=computer+science+salaryPDF 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_off0000eb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001038a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038A 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 498074aa5f871b6434a277f89e7fcaea7cb194e82247dce2da124fd987ba9cdb
font_02_sfnt_off00012f60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F60 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 17570ce99395d919b760c25caf95d5b61ae82cfd3c18b5e71b6dbab4d4fb64cf