Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ecb707491fd32bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 995ca0889b897623b46f2c08d34be28a SHA-1: 1ccb30749e81af5c650238cdddab3be64d7b5fd2 SHA-256: 9ecb707491fd32bb742e7fa17c749078436d292ceebdb3b43666452b1c46d5ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092362c08d3e---vigibejaxakon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/86573358609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260a2b9c4dd05784895b79111d86b468/46952446327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94dffdd0b1e6c6d476d8c8260a1a61b6/36815323914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/80192706254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/mefowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/xugogutozipajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/47777536175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u9frpptujuk2c0v4ekkrj0a61/xofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/sudozukisigevigide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/liwubakebubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pomejesavifotixugeniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/28258946214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a01d81444d---17299871493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/neguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/73623039972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607937d7ec191---nivarunoxopelomexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611696a7e84f0---nokuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608491a2ae3f7---67511515752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b1306b4b5---99924185344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0800-707-808.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210810045249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for284.org/clients/7/74/7452b259410349f427184d5eaa48bde7/File/87807299872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9fe69fec4---9001107933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47728308180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nauseas+causas+pdfPDF 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_off0000f704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF704 10128 bytes
SHA-256: b52f2e0bc49ab72c72246e2dcd4d463aef03e5d04a0ae2f9779721c820a8bd38
font_01_sfnt_off00010db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB8 18916 bytes
SHA-256: 5dcb91a1c0a07e86fae47c132a5919aa79bb382872f81fb25d389af181554769
font_02_sfnt_off00013d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1