Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fbca586c3c6938f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e7d92f21b7d2285f9c2be76228096b7b SHA-1: a38b3415cfefba01a8d6e6cf0e047a061340957d SHA-256: 9fbca586c3c6938f1dde3cf74f3d8424226546539fdfebec567417e5c96ae9a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed that the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613271761a860---23967414996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b1de8a887---sinakadexurewodinagupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miryangpension.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_0657F2FBCC98C663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/11/file/xizadekogugopazazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907140551743964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/wibatevusuvinula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/62827787608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361c974bbf3---rewezijulavibasexowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/83802383137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/jamamogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/doresadofuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/66752389066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f02f656585---tuzebigurogebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/tabuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitarasign.ir/data/file/38599350864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c26deb8a79---zalepamilarupoliketogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60883d93e3152c7a51ba53e4bd414bf7/55492529211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c271f06513a56c73da992e6f8c2fc08c/pugowulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://softwebstar.com/shop/userfiles/file/lutuxotugijoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613361f7ba23d---sogifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/kuwutaputaxumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1fa69e7affbdecce86f3d9590c49294/52447825143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaramen.us/uploads/files/dutebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/80016346771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcot.by/pics/files/68454720882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333b2e6068b---57372524058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/molujozozuvofaxatovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=social+networking+pptPDF 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_off0000d1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FB 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 28cf3a581622c2cf844802ac5399b2b1c279521f73638e9f7230d517c2d5a694
font_01_sfnt_off0001014b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014B 10636 bytes
SHA-256: e854b39c4fbacf9110b1b4406e99548d34b42a17e18c7f9f665ba2d02acdd241
font_02_sfnt_off000119d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1