Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfd7749e4fa5c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-10-05 08:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8098c8394c1030828b13aae33934a3cd SHA-1: 13e17e35f4a9cf3fd99e707dbc74f442b783879d SHA-256: 9dfd7749e4fa5c75f997531b1d5f872b8aea547af2f8d5f42bb652fb654e9ae7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF is part of a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572ea859b35791a355fe8c6d4dd78bae/wuzixojifeki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/23390658494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/nexuvijiworem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vetidabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/zitowoxiporitipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/19739708773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/b859b601fde9927942b198cc093a4c26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6987e00739d227a7d321e2e3f25d39b7/panoxejumokolupafasawateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613153691c0e2---27697650609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c16532629e41c66adfbd2c47806df47/32328383115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73165174217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/59581697849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ce5d8448e---ruzabebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38758218163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///pepezexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20503750434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najlepsietorty.sk/uploads/fck/file/lavelamubumerusefawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/94895099463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancars.eu/uploads/edytor/file/20375791682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www2.grupoksl.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodakenanubifepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/mutitutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoya.mobioptika.hr/UserFiles/file/fanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/47348793604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tapping+blind+holes+in+aluminumPDF 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_off0000b290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB290 14560 bytes
SHA-256: 1d9ed31309ba31796c30c984adbe2fd05dd75a8388935ec878cfb85bcc004c53
font_01_sfnt_off0000d672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD672 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6a885d724e59ccb535f9c05ed02568893640c8d5dff800f88376a73199cecd
font_02_sfnt_off0000eec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1