Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f066875ca6808a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:47:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e8909c989040120ec11001cdc6ba6ab SHA-1: 80171086e7f42597df7fbac36bff66234afb4b3e SHA-256: 9f066875ca6808a81ee3ab259a7762162e8567898c1dbf0d4e1240a3cfc32446
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78ndv19j0hkcrcdhoudlnija24/pevegasatelalig.pdf
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/jekowuk.pdf
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109120458377404.pdf
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/48197799679.pdf
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30291805324.pdf
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobibetulumim.pdf
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e37b53216d8656e585bce40d018360b5/37520591736.pdf
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///22185631618.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353d496aee2---67086850456.pdf
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/babufowinavokeliti.pdf
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/niwitu.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383e1587769.pdf
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/puzixijojuwal.pdf
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wawisonibem.pdf
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/89458892824.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a927ad811d64d75a2fa6623f84b4301/41394167678.pdf
    • https://magnanelli.com/userfiles/file/vavulixulonobufo.pdf
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/wuluvodusipoxifodise.pdf
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7345509279.pdf
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1630817212_960575cff9.pdf
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujovivikig.pdf
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/55865876735.pdf
    • http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/mifuximoxurikawijiwik.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396f7d6983c---41931748307.pdf
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/97504121206.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+invisible+man+vodlocker
    • 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_off0000b28c.bin
52aa2cdd59b39a878da4bc59a769cd9147156b0b2f7103191923a6536bf60c0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB28C 15896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da74.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA74 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f28b.bin
38aca5f5dce8b310afe8829b3f3ecccf1dc5ccb2e54b4f5e16c5ebfca96398d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28B 10800 bytes