Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf7f4d5cdd38098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:06:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 94c539673ec613c00379c310e6539c34 SHA-1: 0307d8212ef1be84fd77043086cffe6937c6ef74 SHA-256: 9cf7f4d5cdd3809831721d3b04a0fecd4aa111732377cc81168bd87ab1cd3024
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection indicates it is a phishing trojan, suggesting the links are intended to lead users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carpet+overlocking+services+near+me PDF link annotation
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ff0e8583d---41988175738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098971b79d8b---jenaxodema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1ec60bbb4---zikelevuvevusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/92204275657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rir0pjqej7ad2lhl6b55mn6l1/bexosasiwixolubuxulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/93053368645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eecc7b845c---2716417109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/5999728266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7d89f4179---rubiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7617bd690---rikegarezuvuxinanubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c0652daf0---12683509676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6b6b82f65168c6854dbf114ece445b/xezavidisobenikoveloxokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gefh2n9j641dh29170eouifr13/fofubavetodutepatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/ganuxujodexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d405994b0120cdb9ba2467b2f765d6/xinadosowisopukukixixigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b07db09c0461512bb03ea5da3d7c1ea/sigume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/30657847183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06484cd2798fab6041e2baab878ad257/69721639326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aua7incvqihenk52f2qqcat2q6/52002264670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abbcab62d3---21683823568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/sutelopifejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/4405785451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f774f552e149211195caefcc43d3fe76/72231487706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AF 17892 bytes
SHA-256: b2a85710a76f4a84807ce6eddb2b2942b566276bbdf1a064dc1dd5bef5320606
font_01_sfnt_off00012484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12484 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9B 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d8a0fd749156473c2b5882602557b3a2ab47ee1cc1aa68d554be9c1f209117a0