Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f9b11ebc011ed49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 04:33:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa1a3453af1d72947a1046051a50a4ff SHA-1: fd81d80fa3af3c33599a4dbd116c4dc607256ffd SHA-256: 9f9b11ebc011ed49c547dec78238a3cf79c695c0144d3dd5163bd274c54955e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery, leveraging a common tactic of using compromised CMS uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5caecb385e1e5992be19f1a306f023a1/73357012568.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916a7163c4d---tatakokowaj.pdf
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/35196233896.pdf
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcjhi3j3m4bid0hklos155ktj2/jokugufub.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/vagexisudowi.pdf
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/30345081168.pdf
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekosozopuwagojasev.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde565e3d1---tadageda.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/momoturaloju.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083735d46b77---52799506561.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1885a2e1002da3de649932b459a2ef18/dowoxagepujenugazax.pdf
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/fidifud.pdf
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/59356821840.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608711b32963a---11116559947.pdf
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/18908328974.pdf
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/lodol.pdf
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/31532881266.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb4a7bc7471b2028b8f3d291be128f7c/74396263754.pdf
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/28869491900.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b237ba014e---30246425526.pdf
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/razapimagapal.pdf
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/54726871857.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8dd187f22f---39720697864.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+light+pilot+on+potterton+boiler
    • 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_off0000f38c.bin
d353a37d5cdab7b4b2d95886af8c52af0537a4629b786a474cf4197a663aab0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38C 16584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136bf.bin
8b1421561614053bfbba440ff7b6e13e0a75f4f0218c02719849f130a41e1315
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136BF 10416 bytes