Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e466ee6e849f760…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 40f8dc2ee0eb8a2cfcaa19921b4d714c SHA-1: db95fb0072d0a489beb51254ae59ee050244a235 SHA-256: 9e466ee6e849f76082b73383c0ceb37acd5612831864acd83880536c60c1bcd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://noddy.nu/images/file/nevutagonazuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf87ijnpsbc8mfd3bham2bvm3m/71352495521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilvrf7hi23ajpos85tbolsanm2/11387587242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82902211742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scapetime.net/images/website/user/files/sotoxikorumubexugeguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a29606495d5e376a2d382544cce914a7/15547750005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799627d5fc8---44202509139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ggt0h7opkt4dl9cj29bos0q2/feboseposuxajevenefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608780391cd92---lumowixeritaxaxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98d1776c1b54da84c53dfb60bdec8a0/bepokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/58581191447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/toxemuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///xasoziburulidafodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/55721840215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qitfph8uh8unrgemskbg049ee3/10234054329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/15928974581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namlongadc.com/uploads/news/files/wofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug8iiqea81gtv8jpebihg19tpf/zodujakije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/larizekepinafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/36710729931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/5072337020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f99ba6c6557af6b55d2c604ab41a9e7/71127516960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=managerial+accounting+hansen+mowen+8th+edition+solution+manual+chapter+5PDF 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_off0000d5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CA 17360 bytes
SHA-256: caea562dde54f0dd68a4aedda38f474b11a7e2167c28440efb30de0a7b1a9ce3
font_01_sfnt_off00010314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10314 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2B 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 68bd9621b7df6346f9dd2ce3698a266cee7c67cf0a243c1c4ffb429f5e8c9eba