Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ead74295756c18c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ff0fe2d8ee520f907240b992711557b3 SHA-1: 1f13d92e75a0dbc4b42b775138b7e69c82da3429 SHA-256: 9ead74295756c18c9171b58a897f71870b5b730ddb7ecba2b6a3e32c1e161d86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to external malicious resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcp8810vg839hdri63s1coprn2/10833237954.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120ccf8df659---vuwamagipurenuxijoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/supekijufunuvibikobiwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/68626867287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9npim7ebfobb0gbemqj1fimbpm/xodenorasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dcd464a1de---nunisazane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f9650a9f9---waxitubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/dokunoroxurofikolixuwevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/vunofiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d78d4b5df6---9817668885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/walajileze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/29086203323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawwaclsc.com/app/webroot/upload/files/15980548884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/resarasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/71583408228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f2f7a77e5---vunalizomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0551080f59---74370282293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/lomiwalunopaxapevopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d512e03be9b088206e83f8a8b41e23/titos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101balkon.ru/upload/files/30181620337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a5b736d3ed52e10f4450de3c4d9dfa/85939551004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210605081428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607814e4d95e5---29185934587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86guqki5j7anapgcuecf8uf427/31761091578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+a+bulging+bag+of+water+feel+likePDF 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_off0000e596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE596 11044 bytes
SHA-256: a5806c7cb245b74e9c4f73754c1e2fecd455ae08871283e6336039adb1e07e02
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11728 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 9ecd37f7eed13c4c69113797cbc5e46183b80fc44f6c9e3ccc556201c1403b2b