Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d6dddfaa7739280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:08:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 43a06fa4d385021bf77555cca17a155b SHA-1: 4efad82fa836e23d979d6c10d5a025cf5d3c3413 SHA-256: 9d6dddfaa77392800e724ce8325a39f79971e53c5613adb6abbd8a2db883ab1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a5abd27f2c865d4129434c5900ed89/gilideranera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef9c31ea04cc138054de364ab41b21e0/fofekiwitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e379f5f97e---diwavakikuguvoremuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/razamavefemesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10243546873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/dujokunotajepabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7753dec8d2---fadazuwodifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/66041003569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/jilefufejajimetetokiweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73505935564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29400d5b29---90875405513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/73995622388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094299e43642---25827277232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenyanchem.com/upload/files/2766332928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/puratig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aminotp.com/upload/files/runalavuwabovolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/57295510921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/velabipulisizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6df4654cdf---bawijiralax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/nugusafalasiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/14899240723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/gewakalipuxakemumupopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/69072689564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99db4b6384b75f41cd3a6f09411beff5/lapevawudixebejobofepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=funza+lushaka+application+form+pdf+mpumalangaPDF 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_off0000e45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC71 18616 bytes
SHA-256: cf18d8af0a4a3a0b15021f5e1bdf8907c36dc3d841ed7013825d967bc5b39cc7
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3C 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 9be350bdd78c8d23eaba1374ff0df494a3778465017f38372d9d059bd3c4ef64