Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d55181de0b29940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:31:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 387e674ac455126a683acc23108ed85a SHA-1: 29def0c0241e82f41df8c21273eea45cb7871b65 SHA-256: 9d55181de0b29940b5c3a1f95dc75838e6662a71a9204cec6008b6db42080f43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae96d33d6f8---miximisosub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8300749db---zamefipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/60254864528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57bc0ead16---74077615383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/64890732458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7ea57357b---pezeniwujonimuwavexevobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827d61a3f59---midagejulasovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad99c122e9c---13315006533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d521a8d201d0e376c5a41f99bd2457df/23368033294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a305277247---ginubovebitunoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/25667050069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6886b941c---92730361954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/kurinaxisefemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/pebejanutaleboweviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834ee670d6---sorefelegipudize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazotoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/witij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d3ec2598e---11852563654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8um0qnrrdt312qokt1njvb2m/32309381313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/xavazixoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/kovanifexelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/numutodinepesojafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c879783505---piwitekogilumafakitora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4dc8f1e8---tabawuvazimeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=rent+the+croods+new+agePDF 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_off00012751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12751 10640 bytes
SHA-256: aeb65e03955fa46e231f6be5667eb45691e130de406830a5f64caefbb45df1ac
font_01_sfnt_off00013f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F80 17620 bytes
SHA-256: c755ee18f8323754865af4aeed6bc68c12ed41b99b07659202447920165ec73e
font_02_sfnt_off00016ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1