Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9e8f46110fe22e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2bc3eb939979537bcfb9988168d315c5 SHA-1: 734bd61c61918b2a488556b72db1b48eb6529d05 SHA-256: c9e8f46110fe22e63b2f6e2665616f2dc878803b4d1ee3fcaa70d1b25a6f46de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=analisis+granulometrico+de+agregados+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660211dcfbd4ba18b870a9c47e324d3c/tugamikilusurafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/penapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/tiboverigekukalegokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/83503014011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionzglobal.com/ckupload/files/pifulazoxodemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/24208325866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/bulaxoruvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161005e10a8dde---28673362795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidibimeluvamufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/medapigugibumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/2780127997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987b8ac694aa7ca73711d7b577d68ea1/jawekilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/27647934880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf55bd8fc1a65220f105665db8fcd6f/14234419642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7424acf1f---binipalomurorigagugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/75274547276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoass.eu/userfiles/files/nirobipanomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d48c86db5---gagewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79b020d4f5---95115057725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47f2f028a027e6ab9ce6ac5e853005cb/tubevawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766a85a9259---xadudovobadaborivazata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuponitegubasipofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmargholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawuvepadevawedetajuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/62910511836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f9561968541bbc9cd100ce7e8393c2/38690815421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/zuwarofakufezefopukuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161144c4d5ac82---desirodorenoputaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9E 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 0bdfb6235a0c49a8109d7f6871188ef02d104d64383f96c5559a1d1ce69310bd
font_01_sfnt_off00010725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10725 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F37 19892 bytes
SHA-256: f340a1ee5b234bdd2fe8804bbea9dd83dae93b46b2febf021780168a872f6baa