Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ec740d84079e421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 22:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b5d3eb300844850d9a6259fd8ba86a41 SHA-1: 540b297f42aab5c4b76f701e41cccc87a0bb14fe SHA-256: 9ec740d84079e421625b050a44d67f1f987278446be780c09b3c7f9fd6b2c99b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a pattern of using compromised infrastructure for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca6995d78d04fe1ddfce167eac767af/balabatuwawukirowufa.pdf
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/87938148866.pdf
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210703061903623091arsdl.pdf
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/59877648736.pdf
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/41740278081.pdf
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/19429848948.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/varipawor.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/26826438755.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18d15a9a05---44287796684.pdf
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/87723329649.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e59e2f3ba---98105655025.pdf
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46561458304.pdf
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/83641528440.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40aa091436e41982c244bd26f3043068/dopejogijogesovimolakuga.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088542659d84---97713467929.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609475348a5b4---voxosojefatasoxukepen.pdf
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/3994842311.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvqp027s58qnkc1emglnes6825/domolanivajixotiloloru.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2be40df5bc76c927c302c5db6a65d3a/dawepebuz.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ed3e35657aebd5d6d836a358496f25/7051230584.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89862ced9bb9ef36d02cba2d4284e692/62326114379.pdf
    • https://najarshi.com/basefile/najarshicom/files/63596802133.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=autobiography+table+of+contents
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011368.bin
02c00bc783f6865e3ac52ab40fb154b32444dd24fa84277ec02e5b1f3693dc59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11368 16760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013f14.bin
236e2829b3db282faae93d920a5907d2f402b69ad6e388fe04ee7644c68dd89d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F14 11096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000158c0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158C0 16792 bytes