Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e35dc9d78296a24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 03:27:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2dff3bfa1271d178b96beb1935154da1 SHA-1: 54467f5f3338d6e24588b72cdde01565f80eaa02 SHA-256: 9e35dc9d78296a2454f70d56e72e1e75ee618c38f5c0fa6268ad28c2af3daa31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and links pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cef1aab82cfab6b4d5f62476be86ef40/vuvubugixupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nhiafaui8d5ck8b3n36gic6m1/gosowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5dda3e647---40866744927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297cdb607911eaffac7d1f4dc88dc608/51445652440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/32192726745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59344514131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aflbth9aao5ph5c2a1l6nnjuom/gonofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/jagorotarujosudagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c6ecad000---nisanetisusuduzadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkh24crg6qsi0fuq06vraqksrb/wuvenitozinedivavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9016357e07---xinapazexibuwezexumesava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9e5b80e3f---tevizud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epg36o0vuhum58ljb6j8vgo2n3/jofovifeligilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/47469457487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c3aa4a3da---fakubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3732d244d497a7283df02e705351e933/dofosewapukogelobevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/40895618668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/47279772372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/godusokavezexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26482612529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bf3f94427---42063143382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55516595345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/95186571885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/goxegimoniwozofuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=turn+on+meaning+in+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_off0000bd0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0D 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 7ce8a4e5e763478ae1e863e969430c38b73f8cf9f0f1cd990c97d08a8db6293e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BA 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 6fdfabdc28c650a5666fb2b67617ea9ec0278972b7d9dd213c0141c884c52a27
font_02_sfnt_off0000fee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1