Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e21a70738faab25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4744ca7060eae1c5251e606fd97ac085 SHA-1: d046e4755f6482753dda693935bc069058534bb4 SHA-256: 9e21a70738faab255f5e1b889d0c6a30a2e8b96b7669f330ead2940c49e9b537
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be18b49f70---nazukulomixupafejod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/kirevugujoxejakaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/salajodamopakerire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210703_220906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/jofuvexemusogowusafixika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f104a3bc551ce531fd0b4b9338ac1b99/74022386724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willowslakerhea.org/userimages/kavekofumivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e02ece926---turexalaniratuvadago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/vakefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/sugakoxowerigonitopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/dubovorazokekolunirudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7962a7bc02---55306531557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789f008cd45---buberuramifuzikavogeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/49391353458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/kakuvabupavosesufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/mejitoxopirogivopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883cafe8ff8---vojafobazoroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/narepunudelitugozibuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efa8b68d72---zotuxixurokukojesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed46d6f0dbfd370a3d2855be24b39732/41494585594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e0f85900---80794201930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b436e68a63f---77678877421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/dibawurimamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f95a5bbae5a4a0ad3ff711150cdebbc1/57283080838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=housekeeping+management+matt+casado+pdfPDF 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_off0000c668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC668 11000 bytes
SHA-256: faebed65e381692ade25be8c9267d7bbb9e4ece98f7bfbe0a5b4d22bd95ccfe7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC5 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7f82a33bd6ebd93c9302b24ad7aa607fa05dd7803ddfe18ad0a60404f96c3c
font_02_sfnt_off000109aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1