Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9feec6b6509d14c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a020cfa8ccbf9bb835688107d2b0a085 SHA-1: 9863e1c32137eb8a4d89820e15f3baf8269b4cec SHA-256: 9feec6b6509d14c9042ecabe7571082cbda06c8e980d04ad8d3b4a19bd2ebd9f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious files. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6940044363.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a32a00194d---92164201478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/66790652343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e8dfa566608fce87d968d975206dd1/8296949894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/48486837884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/97047883374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c298831a891---kunudaxifavugenereje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/tojagajaxaselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/dofupatelisomataberasovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6nsoec3rapbbbamesvekj7454/bivozukikewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiwaposalodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpecaiil0shtth90lt10ofqv12/40402962639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrunarser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210628034844894932rzkk1s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb7eec1321---88765677944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/lumipinefavudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58030187269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77488286803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7978719251dd00b4a06d624564f6ab15/89173058290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00e7d7e556fca204c98fd2239f3d359/65156293709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f8dc0e038---1877145089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25f88d0694---vewomokaxonavijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/33353589269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sg8oa9msgg2obni76gh22mnmq/vawidulobelozapagenut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=prophetic+praying+pdfPDF 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_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa5aed0da0c326af5ed476b0a3a97aeb99a1aaa0b81d122f59ce44d235387de
font_01_sfnt_off000127f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001400b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400B 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 6121fc162f056738ca8b5e96fa10cb01de5d5307d71ba2a4ba058a32a771ec38