Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eef2a8fdec2fb84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 14296fb575b441821d1313ce905784c3 SHA-1: 96e74f1ef1eeaa9e29071051b385d38728589ad7 SHA-256: 9eef2a8fdec2fb845c2bda13828af8789d7c0dbc38e92d57e0692630790c2f60
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+sent+mail+in+outlook
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ec78d613c---50059113176.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0a99e882---wiwowasidoxofezarux.pdf
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/dolabadidijezelove.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c13ac87367---52206189962.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62253bb6e5---vusiwisofakamisijoravu.pdf
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/92928016587.pdf
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/74786415573.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b986d97ca2470847895e950be29b777d/27173463441.pdf
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/rovasesobovewiwagodip.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b998e02737---gopudaruz.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f08a065db8---48980852971.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7b61c9bb7441bcad543938411c9a19/koxowoxogi.pdf
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd23d395578d7ab90f6fc04ff61bfeba/sevekodewagokidiziru.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e41eaff17a5e7e7e4d03f01dc8aec27/mivatonuduwexubodutonux.pdf
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/68718722058.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e4cb29cd1---rizubuwofarubazetiwuwew.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6e85eda7e4dc30a7553e50f5f9b0f3/92827992490.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfd6286aaa8c7dafd5c81f74f3ea197/63964361436.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927ab722afe---1385292555.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbcc80df5a---9157271561.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1ba012182910807e7b85cb618fbbe0/zosumolije.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/51855454962.pdf
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/52084735280.pdf
    • 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_off0000e44d.bin
95e8bd05873bd97b45b0ab7f9728795eefa36ef3999746364abbb40e2b22d42b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44D 17120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011120.bin
359ef1bc4b03c40e2e61e0bf4e5f1ee1d215f7113c4140e2baffa6718d9bb36f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11120 10728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129c8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C8 16792 bytes