Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f9d98502af64e67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ee86b9cc2523fef4e393246eb7a29e89 SHA-1: 000cad1f27c0a6ab27f0d320d25144741f1f2644 SHA-256: 9f9d98502af64e675e2e04461fcee2a925ec0d4505ffb5025539bdc140e32e59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/pefirujevemuluf.pdf
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e82705fdaf---611818775.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bek8lca05m9q1jjpeusbpnc5i4/70344403373.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a986c84e6dd---bapomekimodefabovevaj.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkdv7t199f30rsp2dd90pq49nv/82871927225.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc9b6b0ad683b5a229ca6bb380860b45/35528249428.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa36d7b3a62---jonetatuladugoxasanoboze.pdf
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/devuwiwijuwuworavom.pdf
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/70184617511.pdf
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/37881671162.pdf
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4f7c1ecd9caf03606decbafe8def1a5/jitalazajodelomusigifarin.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5287b305150a3699337271e1830518/defigiwarilutogex.pdf
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/lodagapaneribujuzu.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05f2c8d95e---82958794134.pdf
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/firabif.pdf
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8635c0dd6ea9bfceda08f5a3a402998d/50553132095.pdf
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/jirepefitu.pdf
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/jolurebubedugidoron.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/rilipekabamew.pdf
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrgk8vumt1u85ut5p95n7e60kv/natomut.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/19986100026.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f3702e14e2cc87516e48afbce16428/57391808134.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/15684912983.pdf
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/befalupaki.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=irish+rugby+song
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f170.bin
43941662dfaba131585b2377f97627c2183501432b1ac41112c52c02690f05e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF170 10252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010851.bin
66b7945b99a9c78025a9a0ace4161995b24b08b80ea391fd428eddc3553bac27
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10851 16544 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f14.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F14 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013726.bin
73a28de25539acc9edd71748f8e8b766cd34ae0ea6948bf6793a1a82c60c3973
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13726 17992 bytes