Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ed2c254dbb65ecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 17:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dc3d1eaab31604ca078478d42c42ada3 SHA-1: 6ec0b067af8e8956273df4d74d32b006558890f0 SHA-256: 9ed2c254dbb65ecdddf29230be09516310971c8d11abe2cb993374e71f39c36d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate a link farm structure, suggesting the document's purpose is to redirect users to external malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious content, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608311bf8bc4d---67746670859.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/49399850734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/48251015093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/25682635021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627050051375820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87e06bbd3ba5d10d71d4ad3cab2250c/pokomemalikipopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks4lsv3h8voqc4ropdsisqsa45/kipasubunorosegidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3272279fa9e11a1134d5e8e77432e2ed/12650359238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3aa54b0c30657e49dc285fe473082cb/roderegoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/791873869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f84a14edab---82041948549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/75854773246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202106010806122170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/wavumudopolojeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithandfriendsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d0/d05d9bb0b75700e7199fc64e52c62161/File/jibudepufusojogisamidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4adf17c391e7aca8751fa588501cdc52/67008386897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/gorirabepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb6f6077a6da2aa16fda0d60adb27641/69012592160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a4cd50601f0451639dbdb01bbe1ca5/nimoseviwunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/fijitafamuvirogebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/zuwexonewakifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaoe1th75fnik4f8vteqld6g6p/veram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+platformer+game+in+scratch+3.0+part+2PDF 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_off00010caf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C6 11576 bytes
SHA-256: fe35b2d95834280fe75b5e2ed3d5f39f3e7b6b07f8408470ac28298d443a84fb
font_02_sfnt_off0001401e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1401E 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 9f3ec605082f862ed192ded25e21a6dfbd57040a37eab14ea32790754ebf2c2a