Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f13501cf3adbb81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:34:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9c5c4e50ac646030ba6c43848570a69b SHA-1: 9b4d714a7e984a612542023de3c84eb748da4d87 SHA-256: 9f13501cf3adbb8116815a868c79e07b616264ec3533689b1e9f416d04f1c02b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, leveraging compromised infrastructure to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/jajasirosope.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359ad78bfcd---1998917414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81b4891bee6614e3be01d70d508a4daf/53137482027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c439e44aae0a59bdc6d932ff9cd5a434/60430736367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/wogipanezaxazosufibazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0fa44f50f---vojonipokotiziwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mof0i4cqb2g4rv0lsoinhs266/99772066566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalciniskele.com/imgup/file/kajewekowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/52528259075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/runiwefiruvaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc0f5373e3---81151846466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/xobileje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/sivezofalabitufeduwagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116a6ea69d35---10800542514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40d26e10f0f7e5cf76a66f22272f5de/86198505889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44f021b2e5ebfcc516d32a511823dd6e/pesodajezejirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/bevifexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9fcaf33ca---8224090381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///wesomone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc2be0ef2a---79678854660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79rqbl69q15i6qnqk9rjinc7i8/89392230538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee881c374f315141f6e5042f7828655/luriwagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvguc2le92l4op040mu6q0spic/55536799915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/28080649721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/34810204531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcf16c1d39b---mamixoposavegufuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=jupyter+lab+tutorial+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_off0000d05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05B 17772 bytes
SHA-256: aae3499c4f1e8b5f7b3b9e6799467db91fecac22a5054c941453261f639d2f8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11725 10564 bytes
SHA-256: e19e649d8b979d37846102e7b1c6cfa2c52fa5c13b1849d827ce3587d1760f98