Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db32a4d88c2e65c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:54:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a5d64ebb4ab7a55c072d8f09c0c95f99 SHA-1: 28eeff64adbd7245a382d41232910ec24608c78e SHA-256: 9db32a4d88c2e65c6ba8889d032ee86d3554dbc78512ce77d921d1d5976b7178
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 multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/95991816396.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a659476d8facef688430e072a20b46/12066979877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/wuragadagusofinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401f76f36ae1b3984105fa824c4dc2d9/wixejoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/18938737005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b00cb55a14---goboxovuborefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/mosomolodutapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608686e581f51---92650499701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejajisora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0807aaaafa2ac3802e3080208cd751a/24977632391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080158cd2e25---94102581328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079de3d4389c---ruwake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ee804bd9b1c4aacc544804ee23738f3/kagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/gefezironag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/12315005339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/virun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/79762318959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/biwemagataka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/66108268654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/200779909560e6931aac229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=dice+probability+problems+and+solutions+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9b7bd853f48834194f7369e49c0a67/81024495405.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_off00010039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10039 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001184b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184B 17564 bytes
SHA-256: b5548fe6f992cd75f0b4967e80d17f21d7a63d627472d7a4e317e8a5dd6bb913
font_02_sfnt_off00014659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14659 11136 bytes
SHA-256: d213263fdb22c519d0f647f7b54f1785a2cc9cfa779fcd6b6b88e75698bf988c