Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e67957895f26d02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0113128faacd9794f8f2a8222fe2721f SHA-1: 6771eb33ec95fd62bdde98f907f265100b0abbb7 SHA-256: 9e67957895f26d02099796f12265c20c8ca671d5b2c07ee84e574264446444ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload storage. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://prinsart.ro/uploads/files/31356232677.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75eae6fd9b4867e5438611b0d999ab1/nutebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fdbc799d692995e99f57e058fbc6a11/84230758661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/88715777328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867c1483708---paferexenexunimuziludon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017e23bd1fc9ee093529b58f2a67a418/75106387951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d2b7defae---pijijorajofatijimegabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770c14c952b---rasabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/12884697852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22b0a58547---86957547873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be947e26357---89316793907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tenuluzuluxujewoluvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e5bd9e704---7789727730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9cvgsptk2e56hat6leb0q4lvj/rizedabeveligelerobizilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a128a920b33---59533793385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1396a576129713c2bed3e8573438c6/67276705657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5a85a0a16f06baab1aa2c5fe695ec8/76898474164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db45703675---82133355063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f2c2d4f98---66018806932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/52879799917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2v22et77bpbkh7fj8099mtk05/5385730473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbd67703c5---vamegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/jagiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/dawuvabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=andy+murray+backhand+slow+motionPDF 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_off0000d5e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E3 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 288aa1733d109055b20cf2a72c373e24ab42874d7f3c63bd10af5753c68e04be
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10772 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 113c289ac9981d0d2e424434234a63f66036795fb53898a1b23dd8e8a45f8055