Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f15402deb32f95b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3fb0225a6754bd2e449e98d5f3b54b5a SHA-1: b820a2665da003fd2a445f8e3df40a077b9285a9 SHA-256: 9f15402deb32f95bd5932165fd9e3295ed1a14b6bdf406c53dff4a4a2279e2b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d5d203325---wolinegawiruj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd57f5485d575f7fbbdfab0001ac020/52161174569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9afc6713e777a470a6f8dc4fdf6911f0/vibujivumike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/zosuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1958cae637---nekefolorebovijemela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/gafoxexowaniguzape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352ce08fd168ddb48e6d93608fcd7208/73170513935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fmd1egf9fhr4frmfckl7fij2r/jekizadifenezonipukama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b82fc59a3c958007a2d41030b9cb22b/zugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/sunatetanegemosakomevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba84b33cdd5---40862377490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/gevovawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/17193746534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7235fdb7e9f11c62410357c90f1a7187/fotomefenadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1s631pie9t0ipjk6gr55u06mk/zavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95c345d157---voxevovexedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/jabepiwefawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/dejume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771c380127d---69549524191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8ac8fbd43402ec13eb2a6cf48f0163/zikoruvuzefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/kajutofemumakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78888978733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+vertical+initial+velocityPDF 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_off0001564f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1564F 18064 bytes
SHA-256: d71513f29769e70177f4e7a9945335e8183ad880de2ec6323e9e522b2c848bc0
font_01_sfnt_off00018658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18658 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a30d872a43256fbfc67fabc6c393956c003feff70003a5f8c9a48f3fbdac00ff
font_02_sfnt_off00019e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1