Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e5f7b095ce50ca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-16 23:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 786133e2096d2852e15af5583c8a0d08 SHA-1: b943325ef29732e75ecf8f6802fc13dcf29350de SHA-256: 9e5f7b095ce50ca4910538b046ded7de29a1f8811dc68d916e023576a1b2c58e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/turibupun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/xikefifalixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4e2df7798de52437f168db0d72e882/65779331429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/zopinegoronumetoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eca9bdc4e2---70478786228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aqo37kch2c3ov9i192ho5v8kg/14353993917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/luvazijipumomemaribox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c90mqftm14bc2fm7238lg9cbj/95259514938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epos.nu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5998207626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5253d1c41---wonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc206677c1---segowoxiridopojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/jubamujubelomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0947a67502eb23d82d76e8b66053762/tojubegejabujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6dae6c905---62730029555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e420bbaf38---dafilefebofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/berivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84e7071953---wamabalefenogexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/mizigole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6631d0c81b---87984949855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cc7ec5102---pitexukokode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83a31ddfdd---femukiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/19459446326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f613f143e4b---48401779936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/xukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hack+any+game+on+android+2020PDF 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_off0000e661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE661 11128 bytes
SHA-256: c7de3b2b80111a9c9d36b662a1ca206204ddbbaa28c7fe7228a8c6248c9ce05c
font_01_sfnt_off0001000a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000A 18476 bytes
SHA-256: 9da0d0c96ea79130d149f3b2ffa30ee2351bd00959539254164156cdc674f7e7
font_02_sfnt_off00012f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1