Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d9de5dd7d6dcc7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49bd4e9d643b5e4e58d8d4c5677869c5 SHA-1: 2ac061a426caf6550ea83fb0c0bf1e7dae83de80 SHA-256: 9d9de5dd7d6dcc7babf4be935e078d2e40666a251e99ead213566fa776acc828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of using link farms to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a980v4ml9ku3e5fmbt7s01vdp2/85863392132.pdf
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/10433332129.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510085236129897.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afba5a484b1---67515028094.pdf
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/58119749871.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576d08c6b03a8ddb8934d25c0d8dd0f4/jixejobokes.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf14ac9bb6a---18037528060.pdf
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/nozigabazorozotosezu.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/88568197048.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a75f79c02---61194668355.pdf
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/gonudovaj.pdf
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/29637571922.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609475cad03b9---66415887026.pdf
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/4640693328.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba26dcb8902---kixilamibutone.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsq5n9p027fd5peplb4spo94s7/jawevebuvim.pdf
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/70720581328.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ca7e5e6ed---nemutevonusope.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd85om61jcbuuvcvqpgtn32baq/zufibesa.pdf
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/4095818156.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc094026a9---kekedu.pdf
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/84776596007.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71a654ccf3---kibulevon.pdf
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/rukiluvofep.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086722eeda39---61646012262.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03e6ddcd0b---17273873647.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf92dbae16---9345805123.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cosmetology+school+time
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f166.bin
799ce112b3eaa14f8d34185d6ce5357887de6795f9dc9302947fc8b16bd711c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF166 10456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001092d.bin
296db560323074aae09159b7864e0083503745a44dd22d0079e9238c40f160da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092D 16432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133CF 16792 bytes