Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9efe3d6615db17cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 958262abe88313d4b63ad50d6cdcc7ff SHA-1: 6808388aece8c52d25245ff2e7a676d4651833e4 SHA-256: 9efe3d6615db17cc47d08140a0d817a2241f6b43fa269a245fe84f9098ffc918
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, many of which are WordPress installations using vulnerable plugins. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, as indicated by the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae77e50f2ff---66486883731.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/27967597945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd2dee00f63bcaf6f12b8aa866e30d9/sirofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/tusufemedajeduzijodumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa52926516f---25699993521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/89810432859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d769c390393cbee68aed021ff6c78ce9/xenipogozusuwunonone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdff6b9addb---gadigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4bb699ff0---sikutowewadufewererugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/16526365065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/werubuvimopoxakorixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/30338425206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607862b7dd1c7---sewukoxusagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607522753d385---vegaxefoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/38431568883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/25023555676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb91mbkgd16lr79b44h2t1grp0/93915450870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fded75e64---3317103456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/pobofikowovojiwebexotobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741ea29d86d---xibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b50a1964fd5ea4087dd85d5e0cf02ec/32285504213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33kh9slj75iieo2jucil4kmm67/dodefurujidopofukilaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8urvpqj0mitu436l2t9oq5ca5n/18153176943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/62320858326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gratuity+act+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF056 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001086d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086D 10800 bytes
SHA-256: a70149ecfdac5ba3aff5bb01cd54a49c4448560bf89a38ec0e8ca7caecfd6920
font_02_sfnt_off00012165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce885720fffa511006319023e63f50f4319a27f376f953034d55f3fc26758e3