Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e288f1f4e62b1c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2609fae7553dd7aaeb8681e2686ed869 SHA-1: 6684cefb09c79d55a91cba715d7c4be90144617d SHA-256: 9e288f1f4e62b1c46014e1e8724af6b87a56c36203a4b1aa82f7c363b3025bfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other domains, many of which host other PDF files. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/tatotok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/segotapawuberegebali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765931fd8cfc4d77754551d6666a4d87/93239090241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/zibopafiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opgzvh.hr/upload/file/vanejorekiwujijigefobigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/931b2bb55fb8c32bc65dede629230504/19083021493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4287d7eb276c0aaba10405931d3dc54b/73326610713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0eb481d056e65f00e1dae0b3e853454/wexaravovazavuxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54a631f783---8031577936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/lexuwemewugebakijudofopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/dumugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/58631760599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2ts4mhj7m9td1d7ica6qdk4ee/37215435117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/69255413444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/98585627499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160759819952a6---sidulupaxevawimixinopizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://overtonnation.com/clients/f/f9/f97855507a39dfa58978186db9bff07a/File/vatizasugewofojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c313387f0f---fadojupusitasudaxarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/bekiguxexuzowuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210803083045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee7044908deab7c5615c6e8d28e7bf1/39822060787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/81471670895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed15a675ef2---waliregimaxiboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f331648423d07260c176fce594171df6/vevumapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=math+ratios+6th+grade+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD754 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3972e38f16ae729f7f27c2a754bb15825993579a441cd19720b4619bf7d525
font_01_sfnt_off0000f006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF006 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6570efc3ef5473ddbe4fd228d5a224182327330dcfb507693b0aaaa2ea5c57
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1