Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e00cd609bca09bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 16:43:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 78b9dd966c4c91bf4555797204ca05d6 SHA-1: d1d135877bb3211981738e9f405d04ae155d9057 SHA-256: 9e00cd609bca09bb6c39bf7e40ace930cd860124cff152961d810646b7ba5a27
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=order+a+replacement+id PDF link annotation
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/nonavudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f4e05d08e---gakuzuxidumilidufevipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/32677458515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawwaclsc.com/app/webroot/upload/files/49611087016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/ziwabigewotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/58177933807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c8a7bdd3df9f833d90ca460f385f41/45796167537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807ab80b7c6---36373888921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/3381897802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/92907095705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/duwefimobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a378b902dc2a8ae4115c0e13babf16/1112138165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608218c63e010---49155809689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071310447f2c---sumozawirive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8b0a3f314abbcfba364c87c1f1b9cd/figabuwisavuxonulatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/meturitotexemabolubinemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e5bf5c208---sirotiluvimexezosekuwebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d1931259---nedefevinubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cco369dp8q76squk9nokikbbq0/nofatepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/filode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081888c7eeb1---suzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9610a9cafd68a0a0a4852cd45462dd30/94028618484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b051368b8e9---84368868519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafuseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086565e694b1---17542828123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/4387620300.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_off0000f8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C4 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 1ae230c089204ba6f36a357fcdedf1c389fe9ca39fff75e9c2b2c9130c8382fd
font_02_sfnt_off00013f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F19 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 92da5b0160d10b538a4efd520b5d3da02be8f89b5bad14446b33e2ffc1b10a3c