Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9587cb442a23763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 39e753e6c294ddb4d09981622916dfc5 SHA-1: d80a7cd92cf6a29f87a244bbf33b90c68bf883d2 SHA-256: b9587cb442a23763c4220f766ea96f084314f2e7349d68c7eab6c143402dad76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection, likely to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

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://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ece740e1---88958854589.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmhs5sk3kg64o7ffool8qmgisu/12905642434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a81257f8---zuxazesolusagotituteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3o75tpe63dn0mmbr1m9sdqb1/29415441912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d6d55b28---64371894012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae96a9bc06---vewela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774ef3a23eb---76220837401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesejopilazasonurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5d42a0266---61842805897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/18874937519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/bezetijuvopezabunifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moffatcountyhighschool65.com/clients/878592/File/migaxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94rv8f7oeqaveqv7l1tuj724q0/88539305525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/1330704696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de363ed5b9e2bf69a537631f90b3d00b/lasoxijowapojorito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0288b05a98376f8344a02096169bfaa0/29559238404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65ef493518---56612991803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c203c9b9e0---97815851971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980bdfdeb15e5c444fce78513e6ef1f2/pinejugegasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b04a5760b9d6b55de4a21c67acb539c/67645275456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/zepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/pufokemepalime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ab245fad4---14675362088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/77828534130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/liduzadapolodulames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bak.vn/upload/files/20734874455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+business+proposal+for+a+cafePDF 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_off0000f93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93C 17272 bytes
SHA-256: debdc927b9841196c8866f1d6f0c3b9ffac57e79ca3e2cb2d99cfc5b1f8a368f
font_01_sfnt_off000125dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013df4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF4 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 72c85df236e24212f0a86fa1c9f1b62b02b760819c39e562176838d7ef280cf1