Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e526084721c4d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e61f4e7d8fcf484f45089fb8e9234d95 SHA-1: f9324a848c09e17033b6f74024ad604541ba4aa2 SHA-256: 9e526084721c4d883a5d6b876a4594df39c597a08819a80c2d8c775c714b28f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and link farm indicate it's likely part of a phishing campaign or a distribution point for further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9852

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://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66197b1e80---1367684518.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3320fea3036ae9626dfa41cf5a098e44/sopolutividolasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/38036392019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb75608974e3332768a7c6f8e09d855/41386123290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/poe2e7fn9dsp4bl29j8859e2m7/widizekigaligibowajizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0633132c86---79745063626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4aa6ad9ef83778c27276298fdc8388e/wupezamajira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9de1449b8---vewudivimitiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/838161974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf06f06be8981c3ce05672838465707/28542008798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fdec5079c---16795738018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/33969026797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6733567acad905adff7ee718dd7430b5/69806900879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/neruvame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9da5b93387---favoguvujeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/nunafotekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/20570116514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/86294293664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltdu79sfcqjqegctden5lmjsa6/27078938608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/5618025684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b7156cfd837bfffdc85755f01023fb/nuxuzemitewonokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975e9d1ad8a---17862043180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820f6848470---wajodubikatevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/fotonerutisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/69706252412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609673ab3380d---34841806247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=began+to+becomePDF 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_off0000ed1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1E 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 0555b2d0da55097134e1fc73e784cd8ef0fa857b8b4e947c087eff83af0fa71a
font_01_sfnt_off00011815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11815 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001302c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302C 10360 bytes
SHA-256: e6c148f330d112fdf0c9d676e7c4c44702b45abe26453a3ce9e69ebaa0f76fe8