Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da34c104586fd1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-09 12:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: bcdcd839427b91594682f3ea2027490d SHA-1: 04bb0e94d4c8e7d8d3601222352fb87fde28dfb8 SHA-256: 9da34c104586fd1d9775cb1810a458729bc214ae5c92ac051e5cf6eda4e32c9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a redirector to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conditional+sentences+with+might+and+could PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d30de413ff---mopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b364b02b5a65e94d787658e5b50093e/gifodapuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/53135405807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed9fcb2271254c4ac28717a27e03a17/80273175180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79tgehspskee3po4p4rsn500p2/38161673045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01446937a3032dc3513b06131e3e4c1d/bixaxurujosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/31811353025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a9581cd0ab071641b97ce447c9ebf9/92884101142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g45sqe97i051gkvpn2p4hp5c4i/malol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf231a367d---52289315175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24609835a7d04a748fd4a38505e4bdd8/donoketivazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/nexijateririjekuwemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d952371378---rumanofufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47da909f9916d80bc670bd919665bf85/tilopanifujomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/59641375171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00013a69.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x13A69 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 5773551089864ce13dc31a04cb4284ca402391cdf7893fa01a5dff0bdf038c7c
font_00_sfnt_off00010375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10375 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 8432606b55dd60b10f6271563880cf341702e6d3223bda097842bf7db660a122
font_01_sfnt_off00011539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11539 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 7f065f6d5bcb27ec046cc26600c80be7f02f409a81c35e8fdc40a2194af9ee2d