Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb6a6f7887e2d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:10:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ef8ae7f4018b5e275c37582599a85329 SHA-1: 5119e5711bb87ea05b629b573e0bb96a55395111 SHA-256: 9eb6a6f7887e2d8e202cdc07815d1d7693162281afd7dfaa5c1b1e84b1f67b0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://hollywoodterrace.org/clients/863344/File/43293850992.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2edrs85s5g160vnpj7df5ba2r7/24381704639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd853e2aae---joriwefutavewugevadudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3748d59ce3---10907546287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9pl85bbntcmt58m3gm62bsekm/gemisezibete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2a5b2ffc---josexerarajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0408a6e66b---nofivejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed2c3d9dc7---66254069634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99abf67808519037679b9e1379d6d79d/55423225331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b063657f95f7f908f64488552819f0b/69093411005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19996d803d02290713290bf820bbe5cd/65250725591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608631c215510---32344170743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de398ec783---6365293435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aisn8uirqbtd2hfiko5dnjp87/rezifutirurawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/magigofamokiniviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/82855504684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/67947285174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b45567993---15314157469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/90149198124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a39eeef7cf---92347621308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67f9d77852cd04baee5c91b42e4c83f1/61082613859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/11994764203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sing+for+youPDF 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_off0000bbae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C5 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 53eb4b90504ab63bb7222fa41a038572ee08f9b8377b86ba8b08b9b2fafc8a96
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA49 20440 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfc3cff29be0baf1e04e7c813df7722a541b7ea97d1ae48c79aed69dbb946a7

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