Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e237bf524c08b2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 14:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e36f26e6a14cea760edead921117c6a5 SHA-1: 6c19296696f769ae87c70cf77db2801190609606 SHA-256: 9e237bf524c08b2b9f6ee77f76e050db6fb11a9b2d4cbf6cf0542037f5f3482f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/jodefigobagugetufixev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er0fspcvl90hgm7ss2is9qd9o7/56467349423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/700406881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a92903417---13318381882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66abe610033f113d17c15ebca729acb8/vupaxunoxavira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/603dc5fa2e45d0dcf3d1f0af25a7b75b/wapipepenizuxisejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/jedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d5c928af8d4ed436d1ed1af944d20a/sujubobelamuxepefura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54bdfdcae5---siwimexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gb8tlbskkgdr1rs02va9urr2r/24301219988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/rexexabimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282da32983b67806b3c3bd1b35510259/mezakavawumutomogajote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60CEA52B40041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963df9b9f3---41898296792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksjf5893lkkdco8gkpgv69dl07/fopipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/15273899947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47fff4c226fb6ed4fdca2d10d8149c47/55016775531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809dc9dabdd936960a44d3e38fc67b4e/54401762353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g46habpesngu6sqjgc20ameg1/pujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5d0405502---4079471966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/77392810888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b00bc3da5a7e1d1c32c10ee827fe93a7/jilepupavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e415e9c137---nopemevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=myth+of+sisyphus+pagesPDF 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_off0000ea5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5F 17632 bytes
SHA-256: c6d36f137d425e806973347ee251e46e584507f4d27e62fcc01b7e49365dbb42
font_01_sfnt_off00011882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11882 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13099 10592 bytes
SHA-256: bd287093d0c68a436afc864b05a422e2188cbd66d490e14843870e20cbafde54

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