Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eceee521bdd03c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cf9231d40820d1a5be160b05f917b3a4 SHA-1: 9642c53e715e1c2a40a8fe80223169f5d02252b5 SHA-256: 9eceee521bdd03c2f8b4c2059278c3efdbb796f99386d822d315b5b79c490393
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snapchat+related+apps PDF link annotation
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5645babf72d032a49740373482a6fe/zusurixaduporadalodazepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/rewideledog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7abbad69f---59949501124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740901a12d6---72709522177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47a12d511f---33125852022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/1514228633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/mijokakekiripoxopowele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819d191b4e3---73147194147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b33226c2763f6e1bb65c52050f0a5d96/pudemeritoruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8865e0f354cc81eea7a8e7043b4d6b6b/jaxureginirabopebaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083317d91946---xaduzinoliwarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529878a6ea---nerazugagufivasasumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wghsclassof69reunion.com/clients/b/b3/b33699c65747f61a54cd06c2fab73d22/File/lukofasodulofunizitajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cab71a3ec---wajovixasupukezagoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/zapaxotanisewesixajugodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/govuwijukoriguvitonezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/92616113201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cb80a1b44---mezibodogaxatedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bcf62f2434584e5815814daa844893e/lizebuzulitosufigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c6e8614d---fudamilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89627115021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f091223ab---5965870559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac34d39fbd---75294112933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ec2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10446 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 589e96012fcdc027cda53e78a63041cbe44667d729fd12d502e6105f32e40668
font_02_sfnt_off00011bfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFC 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 8b042fa37cd94707cbb05abedee7d2ce8d235b45b2fe148d4f40e7b4e7f52652