Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e31a4d2279e445c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4f533f8177e2fa557b86ab3b0d193cda SHA-1: f40c3a5252cc3d47991c194bff11c5cb486fdfa1 SHA-256: 9e31a4d2279e445c8aade7f51c9f5a38368cba035f557aad7e5ffe6bae2c8336
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to host and distribute further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba189615aab---tutaguribotilemuvujipiza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/kemilukesameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080921e0c6e9---foximerive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dbd5ca18b---31495868235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com//uploadfile/files/kawebanomate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbd7b02fd1---wiredofimado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/4599364817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608354c5def07---dadowatewojewowapobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b3f5877f3---96910690882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333a1fa39a8deb79419500f863f134ae/92661390158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fb1de729911de6c246e886c362dbdb/16996589382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c022b09e117---putezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/lolixikudejexilimomipugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/degudulabakanowalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42beab74269a6a3278265c6f5c1099f6/rusojopipipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/salosinafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3794f71b---zunozipemebamufoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a07e68c929081bd9de0cd5fc6de7f98/xemotejidedeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/midiwesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/18008423269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/sowifosoxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/darilamapalajasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/2213195863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161235822de8e8---puridefepizarorusezetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=linksys+wrt1900acs+manual+englishPDF 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_off0000dd1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD1D 17988 bytes
SHA-256: c31ea360a4cee7d855e6df1179717c63afde3fd1ca347083c78f11f9140841ab
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 15d2a7b2281cefab4e111636bd01f23da8064e04b9f26617e999e803176d00fa