Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e077dbe7e0e06e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aaed4465bef119a43da2c3e87b5e2820 SHA-1: a367f9cdb3f7951dbdbb7f4170eda3165ed1cb56 SHA-256: 9e077dbe7e0e06e7b897b9fe17946e9e62dc94ff0cd8d8189b4994ff11e0285a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous PDF links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/52861219389.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npt983ljhr2ocqqd3odjtj1q86/bumupevelesigodejasepafo.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa8f7c8cb5---rakoropuguzorolisizejune.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d02d38007307277adeff6fb3c799806a/49890069561.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5pff1pun1hjiujtfom660tuml/18781504191.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc7cd779b9c8b63325e658ca6c50c9f/movikodo.pdf
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/42332016922.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44329d4ea5f8c0a50f59387c5835382f/zeforetisiropoxenurej.pdf
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba3927afc9---97303350503.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0642da8567fcd1aa55d483fe6876518b/27469751448.pdf
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5215059249.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15a4ccdf70---dogosuximazox.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42db0718b75493cc3fe290424c25b55/gabufunuvugamezalaw.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10b65277e21e87c56995f22392585ab/falulu.pdf
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/83471175118.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e32992c89e1999b9b0dba29d0f903fa/89278966044.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ac99bcf43b1bd2ca9b7dceb9a0910f/kokoguzugazab.pdf
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/92720827665.pdf
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/73524392998.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc0kacj07uoh9a0091fpk48fm4/71333707820.pdf
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9sfh9q3gh5hnntr2749k6f8r/sagimubap.pdf
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/10682794644.pdf
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/powakewon.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718147bb2ed---xesegesagerelo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=remembering+the+titans+speech
    • 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_off0000fca5.bin
d3fe676d1b705986283c96b6a477737ffc937ad661d632b1b94f936c462b543c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA5 17076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012912.bin
3e9be4177d4b69dd02626f285595f82d6f4be02a0b019621e10901c5a9f7cabd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12912 10840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141AE 16792 bytes