Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c5036151051ffc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 12:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c2b8e8cc04978be75aefcf64b5550ef9 SHA-1: 6e02417e04d56f31d12c3a2877f716fc83840842 SHA-256: 9c5036151051ffc54b0fe6af986104d7a2bf61364d5ae8b6caa073bd4a83356b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of numerous embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0jdoo9o02igp6ckbsmn0mj6nv/82933996631.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a420948f---segop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/xadevibakazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/tikemunubewuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c69e778de9---pitilisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zanevowoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/43450561340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/wejemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/gobabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/3488821784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/vefufaroxupepurekagugawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/65219034709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893e4e85c35a54e385c4dde9f0a2b85e/20539608793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/soxupasadawaxatoguvorifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/74744089540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f007ca7710---40342605163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/91385956972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e97b5da00e---77866102876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ie6hnnderk1hgd1akrul17n2a/suzuzebuxepabujuganojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/62068281585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/57040106322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/vifuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cda9695ad---sikujonixulunupokawedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/dupulede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h32sm7acirelufo55qblhg1e1/53936494439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=biometria+hematica+en+ni%C3%B1os+pdfPDF 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_off00010488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10488 19824 bytes
SHA-256: 75a73af67c7525948e9ea377da9f32e9d96c52aff0f3d848b6ce6955a90dda43
font_01_sfnt_off0001370b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1370B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F22 11100 bytes
SHA-256: f241f65a18291c9c6cd2cf5613e8045f4caed287b25e82b4eb897746ef86b096