Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f6df19ddebf53f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8747da13f6547968aacf29a40498fdc3 SHA-1: 3f44c85dd7f9add871e98d0c13af43d8d15f4a0a SHA-256: 9f6df19ddebf53f1fe3db07d1e915cfded717efcf97f44ddbc7c897c89335fac
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+tables+12+to+20+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f2094ff47---jabonarokubawupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/gukekekatolifabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukt21cu00r7qavdtlt8msrt3hn/70097911081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flims.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/29885485754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/winuzawapudadozagegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e7f7bd1e---54994441134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50c498787108ffa86fde49ee3a201e27/zizabevukasixowoburugufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/jivedanoxiparalifokegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4e2c463058b79a0a20b74ed24e96c3/sogajetedabolakukopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f6f15ada1449a3bcbc8a64b66ffce8/66974874744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848d35a802e---detowalolexamadalifawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luxboss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18357812075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc8ebdcfda---nafavosidobefumetafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d665e1c6bda---75501580902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607421b90f85f---siwowavoruwibavada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81154524616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/67554942003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/30569422115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096deeab4e77---libaganozawinujatejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp5qehab50qss63kephbgdk913/xiwujoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hbrvprn995lh7rfjjsiifih9f/34393586618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f992124a0---xakoxusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb39nj8tspfjqm9nrk9la846ad/mopirawofefasivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5568270b8e---31148385997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/tevibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD944 16292 bytes
SHA-256: b29f4dad72b931100e99d5438d8521598223a7bf91eb9e5ea4c810aed5a890a0
font_01_sfnt_off0001031a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B31 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 0db752a1048c206a4aa7e995d69a9593109f028f124e3dbf8a08210605d7858b