Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c956a20396c629b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 05:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 44d7b1f63f7c3f64aaae710b956687f8 SHA-1: 1aac014fae862a0507cc8179f523038b36ddce96 SHA-256: 9c956a20396c629bc900128f982b1a3be466fc2941e288d0226a343427f8426e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The "free office activation" lure in the document body further supports a phishing or malware distribution motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a9a091004---17367703878.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/jujofotalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824737096dce43e11e179475b706ee0b/88342022795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b10372a0f---58653073950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67jaloujsus3pps3bp33mdq3g7/lomerexevomolajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097be84b0d---vifolajofanubolelujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2095f19fdc5ba7d7bb3f9f92b7999bdb/38172685390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/29852336441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65428226886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/girozutuxekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e3d5ad233d9454f75cce32752bff47/27689791741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fcae25911373e340016affc2ed05012/11740212612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5f2f0f756---55904958007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e1a6b920e5f67d268fc740426b39b6/53584854889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37cca5ae39---wosafugaritor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/62824370555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t69ig9p0ep43rtuuah0g7ua0j1/44045310941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=free+office+activationPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5F2 4680 bytes
SHA-256: 241b0788a50153aab3b8772790dab420a870289e2b9a4507ecb3cd60c4f253b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5F7 9352 bytes
SHA-256: fdfbb36da0c93a7c92490f39428946178a85765c19f65544ab2abbc6f8f36009