Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9629804a636ab45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 765470dd86643427fba2422821a92688 SHA-1: 1513103eaa0bbf65f95fac50460fcc333d0344d6 SHA-256: c9629804a636ab457451dfc5b143bdd21bad0766d8931b8ef6614db89a5e611d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute malware. Heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious content, with ClamAV specifically detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files, potentially as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608030a53e720---32170380549.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/49085895533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a892b0d977c---94090337787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19059e9355f0dbd5ac72870cb99ba788/mubesage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc14fb1d1ac4e8778343dd9989545c6d/punitegaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpjg8b4chigcjveavn9cgea5ti/paguzowawaburefodozexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/kuvebezuremezajomigivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/fepojitujusezarizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897791e034e---12508126188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/508ee4bf896352bf4d1c06267ca2a512/67580669286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609619468bb5b---bavuxoxavumixaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd20b95270d1ead242aea4610e8aca1/midalugoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf1ab90616---jojekademefefidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63cc12b2a090f6cdeb04fdaf289de32c/mewemore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b0a9c520d---27892464701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-ideas.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43051939180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831cb109d11---lalanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bab6a39bfb---niwegazubenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/votekixepazekukumufivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f9874bf9f---xotexijawexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/52081672978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f6cf37137ef479f1317276a126d491/zurovadeketopiwinofebex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/39067139145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+jdk+free+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000ef62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10779 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 587b0c4d48bc3ae3638d3413a1d8a447359f8e8a390cd6f1f7dd670c8be767de
font_02_sfnt_off00012046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12046 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 3476a81a17dbbc3e52c8015fc8abdc06e983c5f330ca0f2040e93591411df2a2