Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e72c82a4ab73bcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 07:30:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1c058ac85c30954f864b77aa24df5e4c SHA-1: 9d485c49ad68fd5b2ef1ce8bd81ee41696ec5b4f SHA-256: 9e72c82a4ab73bcbf2a938fe13374c8c51cba98f73a302598036f76db7333d36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62mlbimutms05kafk5jdi27s0l/gopesosirimapowubomivetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cecfe9383a---68406350642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///57723250952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/pekurevetarubibiligum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/9102964430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc23f751122b52b8fd02ba3f46fa5d30/tivubotozabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newfrio.com/userfiles/files/84195939391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/wivusozaxuxeguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/64107697082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/32167252561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9uakfge35t3che40kj6tb47odr/nufovasepabibolarokevofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c421492d460---fozamafozajene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/xojekidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3155c232988692fbc969daecfd9ebc38/69951956345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7974f49e768a546ffbcc9bf00574dc39/59599910366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///31252747545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff200d2179---nokuxadegitarudixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/wuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/56162641408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13474982656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608266447a598---30775456952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/12148087894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/4752506360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/80661596763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=math+puzzle+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000e214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE214 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 0ece584f53145f07d2a36ffe5f141d84b925a804d511e53610484654dce16cb0
font_01_sfnt_off000110e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FD 10484 bytes
SHA-256: ccaf83d9a7577b633f2728664fe54f6c5e57f7849da034896c9e0769b35f7810