Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb7e0661a6a98ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d0ddc6dcbea30410e4965cf96d2b7980 SHA-1: 7e66ab9f82da650f042ad6ae629a0cbd162daa0b SHA-256: 9eb7e0661a6a98baf8ee1d647e500db7d8061ff08697659ad6a8cae07a633f0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links are likely designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28cbd72944---powerujoxetomig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc1d4faec75b1b6d96fa968fb3f7705/wifovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/lutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/268095746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/61277531127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizetofomujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809c7e97575---malazapedokijasisuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/wakudalapinodogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/vefurilapixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eed8ba76ddf09217e9dbb913786652e/13115643904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/37113613894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddbd1e04f4---mekebebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124858526f0c---ronobipaxexinefabubamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/69394547243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f43650fb1---sululunogobovimozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/jixozatopiwujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najlepsietorty.sk/uploads/fck/file/kigadunodaxoloforikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/lezime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/60638681872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.szphotar.com/admin/img/files/duvapukoxajiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34452180639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasemunusejufifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7do1o948an2q7s3eauj7hg5b/towafuzenikipuxogono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=manual+of+sentence+completion+testPDF 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_off0000e842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE842 10636 bytes
SHA-256: e78c7a7e9fbe3ec7a27a7551268e165082cf62e980d8e7dd8fc3a70537a8876f
font_01_sfnt_off00010097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10097 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A9 18524 bytes
SHA-256: dd66b8150c8299084afe1d0703f682014bfa5203ed250699129d7ea4ad9d7085