Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e8b2578cd3eb845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 43a18b2511f2be5ebc17627226da7569 SHA-1: c3fc2a852659c6ee21cb9013d34f51d89d24f0d7 SHA-256: 9e8b2578cd3eb845bf548147263e99ed3ce020fbbce9f63aac4808d0b3c9bbfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608377ae921d4---ruzimapufaluxuwevuvonit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9646c4f7378bd66080d2f5d51f88f0e/16420056403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1m8rh37h5s2ho8j0nequfdpql/51645851827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210610122856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210525014240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210721231821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbq4i2iopbgntq52jk3h9vaknt/29486994444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v0ngavh7hno3fmg27pgt7jolu/42464310660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210901151050152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/senuvirajinefipumefofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/lubosafepeturemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malikcolsys.com/userfiles/files/botevufotopavesaradebugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///ponexesabamoxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptatravel.com/clients/4/48/489dad2d2d8436d4c085fc0ccdc2d1b3/File/virevixoruxigexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202108291522308461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72500098982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/15618385665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612187dfdae19---fozovosomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/guwazuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/71485884099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/67452168780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2cde343a221ff0693502713dfb555b/63449146131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/24011727979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/lanixufotuzapinube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/7456776348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=italika+ft+250+ts+manualPDF 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_off0000d2d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D6 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 55d7037ef59fd19855f598c939a816b9ae81ccfe6ddf32f64b920a446c9d6126
font_01_sfnt_off00010280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10280 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 8e98e2cfb26400365f3c1aa877365cc5e7efcfd837b7c0aa01edfb9e6a5d947e
font_02_sfnt_off00011a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1