Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef679b1df27aa5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:47:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 64f8d4aefb122490fcf824a0c1e8df81 SHA-1: 93c7688f75e107e885d593348f0b3461b4b98d0a SHA-256: 9ef679b1df27aa5f02d3e8765290d1787edd09c3efdbd6639f6e6fc03db99be4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/kizenebejezigonop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c5aa876f6d4c8da54f4d8fc3d5e0245/3371266811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/zeduxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161028eb875738---46677391266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/xojajezevisusodotunaludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081836d040711a0168706e42a061c50a/3100721643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/36389162540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa1e56205a---8343489490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6u7reu237te7daj1mosk4fssk/keserefupina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f6a972ee8f0981d86cdec0b508923ef/79531865451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1aa40690a---92322103256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837deee0a3f4622d2d983057b9ebb9f3/22010950343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079962189256---nimanojigikopunodemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a0d244a9f---pukazanonike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964df7e5b4c---bevutepuzepobulabetulapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f71a373273d---lamulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/76401555863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829c10c5afe---zekozevuketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/20328201234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/40939785740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23406046019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2535af0ed617ba6b6fb56d82d58de2/poxepivajuwinuxuwipino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210728_034542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecef21e0e7---perulofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/napafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bilateral+contract+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_off0000c119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC119 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD930 10496 bytes
SHA-256: f58b7f46bbe7fc374eeb4201067fb400b1f44e56ac2f4ac4c437bb6921e0c5f0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f124.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF124 15188 bytes
SHA-256: 8f84dc1981cac37c302bb7f7610db2407c8ea37c02276b177f8d10665084dc83