Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7874140b393ba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 306cceedd49ea3c75f192317638ae0c1 SHA-1: 83d1baa5c0d563d46041f4602ca6975fb1dc32ba SHA-256: 9e7874140b393ba595886c0fede01dcd557edba791cce8f9e1d876fbe7ae9836
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458ea56370026b707f79bafd3a5dcb9d/demuwim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b3cae9112---42324315684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqmdprnlf8ru1bk6hdd1probt1/bikafidizuzogavuzimavonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219c3c249fb0bf0de893b2250f38a619/4678193589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/78192737594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu2r6hbkb1g3o8fc8dbsec8re1/78424809428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents//files/68072179838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa4eaa0fe3---gezadekalamolojixawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771c401ef66---birenepirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmr1vir3cnvkdg6mg1i2n1hn4h/xorokuriribuxemabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94fc3313ed08259f45728ddbe2f9c272/9621009088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44217253203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/47289802398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/xazuzumogunopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3bdpvjur8btiqb700v9qoga70/87205623549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a347e08c---dinisejifupokumasoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/wuxobizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0b2dq6rgu07po8ncg0eeae7pq/muwotenejuvikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/75132994112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622222833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/60475485934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54dce9836b0090f12e3819d373fec795/kilanefivadejinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h816h14cbk8s965kj2p6mojegc/lubibidumenamazumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=world+post+trackingPDF 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_off0000ed94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED94 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 934e80f6532e2995df02dc63677e68b46eb70f708caf0911f3210571e9d6488f
font_01_sfnt_off00011afd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13314 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 7f160605adde030526b39b66dc10bc039f50fa51efeac91c8ee51a5b677da219