Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fd02d93128e0e32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:27:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a334d2014e81bb8dda7c66b438574519 SHA-1: b39035d8b877f8485134e41c7f3c00cf4a3abf4a SHA-256: 9fd02d93128e0e3217332e25f90ac973b37a48dbcd2ec5c17ed5202e877ae2f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple unknown URLs on compromised CMS uploads indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd1e8d97b9a---6326061675.pdf
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e434ddf1c71ad7a2ce1afb013a0a4f/tufiji.pdf
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/34513020290.pdf
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uipsfubc0ajv9vthv16mbr4uaq/wonigaji.pdf
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/fodinemijodejogif.pdf
    • http://fhhsclassof70.com/clients/4/42/42ce21dc30e429aa976ba070b22ccf93/File/dawan.pdf
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/xikeditigivafat.pdf
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/47544689667.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa4bbce766---mikumutoduxizoruw.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/55761445674.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd6397b299---71385986095.pdf
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/devebumuruvisoxu.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/76544990760.pdf
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/tunokoxijivotujufuzev.pdf
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4595f763e0---gapigigenexepa.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55u2d89mt5vba2o0ror6agrph1/tenajiv.pdf
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/wuzutaza.pdf
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/7886741225.pdf
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608268ab0ac6b---89624901090.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f790458a8d---vexiz.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a679ba6fe1a---9890469814.pdf
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/16526771544.pdf
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/66566169907.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ed81c21c5---suwisetatisof.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=email-templates+npm+module
    • 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_off0000e615.bin
de1979d60dacc340ab15b03f4afb637068eecda0f72572e62f2b4fd35ff30051
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE615 10572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe26.bin
039cadbd1db134b866c70837773c04ddc3b8a534c99eafbb0c91d5c93f28f78a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE26 17480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c27.bin
fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C27 16144 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000141a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141A6 16792 bytes