Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f5bec4493429c1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3bbf2a86b10185e3508d3930ad97927e SHA-1: 378fe414a493e57d1372fa9b91e57adefb86b71a SHA-256: 9f5bec4493429c1d02531308348f10f9179ba9722aef64934ae75422770ac55c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate this is a link farm hosted on potentially disposable or compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a51b611f2a---nikivunoposipomafutinizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i01pn7aelnk0t4s95ekl89pgbs/xisufusaximadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3o91t7a7ofmihatq7hiflhe84/92482604963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de031483bb---66018851886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b04a3c9afc47538850ba7901a02a74bb/66258656329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4693e1522---fuwogifarujufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eee8e99d0cb66978549b4fda6fd92ab/17013751017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777419051b0a81327ac8cbff37541f74/walinivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/71949596030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a71e0a5cd7---wuxevipogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b364611f1---bewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9834eda4c4---27123077278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608675209b943---xinixibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/57472469007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5617a85c3---26017340580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23c29fad83bd4d43ae6f8e2c2a1b8073/91309284019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/wavusapiberotuxibilarasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/43013516479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c7b111113---62351206914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9a25891773c59614ae941cfb1ea254/wosenomusejorewasako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/74881551376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da22c64ae2a71af7cbc34b073ddbb3e5/lonepozemidexatareru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af84f515d6b9ccdfeb102a05e130a1c6/lobivisudunukolafapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fastest+way+to+soften+cream+cheesePDF 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_off0000f04c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04C 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 624b4825db9a1972c8813c2f6e4c9b5bc1f29ee226808c35d77a3d974c442d4f
font_01_sfnt_off00010895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10895 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 34f83744339cb687baeff62a62c05c08af02c224591d3e0640a75c7f962f2aec
font_02_sfnt_off000134c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1