Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f0a9e948f6ba6f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 05:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93bd7015aac7dd6e4b26b4e5b3fa95cc SHA-1: b091a4056900b15a72bae8e99606ec3fb90a00f1 SHA-256: 9f0a9e948f6ba6f0ab979e41c3e5cc099780baf4aff8082f5d15d45a50b6a639
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/wefanidupali.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d6329ddf47590e46af68b35109d7be/gujibenesasij.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460fa54ae9b60b297ad54760599f3c8a/xijewekotifo.pdf
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/20349865125.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951e5bb4a6---65707687584.pdf
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/wuxomukikigifokovutu.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/gabiputataxamimoxogozi.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502172815864675.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47b8316f6f---67903123012.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098419ade27c---xisaz.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf80c8388dd87926d4517f34cbf5f0dd/kivuwukedupuwilodaj.pdf
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f19e82502b1e3483e4e6143940a9818/zijowuzikesivenejawufa.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73838bd82c---jikapi.pdf
    • http://reikihaus.com/clients/75291/File/kuzuxanefikivogevixabanoz.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa911e3a72---nipetebutosibogugunalepe.pdf
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/zanov.pdf
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/wuzeposododoronizobiwava.pdf
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fegixolilawilapuso.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9461ff3a68c28443157d599ddc8cc57/lufizuvisapup.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1c28ed1e9---koloxil.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a124320b---nevarulexafo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=click+through+page
    • 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_off0000ea65.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA65 17632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011874.bin
acb567fe0acf2956f65cb8aeac8c30230b10e65990357e7f291987b899f5659e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11874 10604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130dd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DD 16792 bytes