Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eefb8e016412711…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 16:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7db29394616c591c0921cff4007a0776 SHA-1: e29127aea8a512c0681cf337e3b534a534c6df06 SHA-256: 9eefb8e0164127116b73ebba32ac01cf8aa2b81d508be17a4224b0ac92ca8e35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and a ML classifier. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicates a phishing or distribution lure. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/11238305376.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be51c51aedd72bfec9be899a8b21675c/dojeb.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73451f9c0acfcacf3caa04b5caaafc97/74142269187.pdf
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/46621194917.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b281ecdb2ab---50788755750.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b08565702---48711646432.pdf
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f85209f92---dopugol.pdf
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/wawez.pdf
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/wuwigivesabu.pdf
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj3ssb5mupna8ga4dehu15mtql/xediwixozerikulozeduk.pdf
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/38554637576.pdf
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28467486868.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e3b99a8c4---93047698770.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990f98a8e8a---mozenivizoba.pdf
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufulawipawimukodulasan.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764b20a1605---ruwovuketusor.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de72318ccd9e56e8333f93d6e143aae1/giwigi.pdf
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/24183074001.pdf
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv2cnrg6dq0hmgjtcfg96mv18f/84621321239.pdf
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eec1bf6b6844863b1f2c11f6e994a4f/wafozawesa.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htucdp8de0rh21hhj42274v0tr/zibuzipigogunero.pdf
    • https://lucky-erotic-massage-bucharest.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82266715090.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=a+dictionary+of+travel+and+tourism+terminology
    • 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_off0001d8f7.bin
c43e6190ff0d6f83c9a2c1832f77f53939e5efdd47bb9561840f4a1553e2d0d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D8F7 17336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00020651.bin
c589cd47a3166aee7206cb699892d11f51301f3efaf6fbf7639390802719829a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20651 11080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00022005.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22005 16792 bytes