Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa783fa1106460e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-26 05:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 31d2f62b22e4726c643c0d8608fc432c SHA-1: 3cf55da68bac15eca8218e9a19607e329c58be2d SHA-256: 9fa783fa1106460e762eb9956e57c227f7b08c35ce3ffbee6f2bb946106e8f63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://drironcat.com/images/file/3463698928.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2017tvj4196ivdhgf64362agl0/mitasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4acbd97772cc09d1d31fffc6b3137722/redubopabexobojadukiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bufpjf85hoj9ojoloecc694c7k/76075366865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d411dbd43d4---jikogeviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/jisanokirunaleremugefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9434a5ff33b3e9cd5fd0e80b14c3df78/98550729780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj32tlvi3heh14emal3vmeno46/lomevepagovepekalububojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/21376351742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/29541748011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/28384514238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4db7a4312---15263758184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/32804960371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3ddf029218---jasisedatolijivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec571de85b18724bce0f2627f9e3d56/48367705962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/048f0716df94fe914667f2e3d9856199/wowuxawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequoia59.com/clients/867919/File/43121761439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a8b397412---xaxisorexawumazarusalijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/fuzolekuvokananiviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/4108261876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/96292107054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.comadmin/file/42745913467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa2b427b27caac5341545d527cb6910/gezibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12dd44bf2697713b120c13a8d63f795f/gibufezupitegiladib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bully+scholarship+edition+pc+trainer+all+weaponsPDF 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_off00011591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11591 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA8 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 8939f78251bce5637497d5ce037ba1c819e9fe97da1e0f7f86123bf7af760686
font_02_sfnt_off0001472e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1472E 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 90b91eae7000954e4eeca4699839445a3baf391dbe5c5d99d65fe0eb394da684