Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f56ceea3a2b10f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 13:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0cda54cd3cf8aee53a84544870702c05 SHA-1: 101e5617f2f20c15dbc4617bf991b8a2dfe5f772 SHA-256: 9f56ceea3a2b10f3fa6a857e2466b9d5912ff83a3022523ded4464a0ccf29e07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other unknown domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ba0a9a432---mubuliwisupaboranexefofu.pdf
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/82546720225.pdf
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/10436808691.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e595c638ce504d7c8ece9710985361f5/93736436302.pdf
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/kovobazigijuvurifonirub.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp10d00djlm7kpb589ql1mjs8a/24178679199.pdf
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/vabazomegurafabotaka.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071655e40000---26964533706.pdf
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f7f8879dccb88d0c470bc0b1479284/reduxibuvekivox.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebabcd6256a461195c9d058b5536124a/wugitirisogimibiz.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ok819ig8dk6cfu3dhsh0vh1ne/mugafotoji.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f57153d6---pebeteviwogovufegumibikev.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b0b3b6116---fizatimitapisasof.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn5q5jfghmnorjh5t7tbpmp1o7/83629368185.pdf
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77011688381.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607711f34104d---85540200723.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060f66d68b7cf11c48d5f74c0f459a1f/vinibeze.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b1560fdd7---21991019589.pdf
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegajo.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/15034994002.pdf
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210707120115.pdf
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58d93a3730324bab746f38323ee307c/jigudewos.pdf
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7313bd1e27a78ead9ee93b7a301a8b/nixebuzuvudimigaxesa.pdf
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9djuh5qj7727q1i0ip3ntneqcp/17748633633.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=local+area+network+diagram+pdf
    • 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_off0000ea05.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA05 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010217.bin
e1dc846b9c96a5e580dc7eb58fce7d89ddb9d39e7af7bdf5038f0da8e29b9e97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10217 17044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012eea.bin
0f4db6b3d76f6fb5c81e52b98cdd1cdc9a0e1d1c026dc5f6e3842a7fefa9bdf4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EEA 10928 bytes