Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9f98575f93077df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 07:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 53592e797d608b7e9df2dddba582121d SHA-1: 868f12f3eef1974b4793fec820911373dbfff0d6 SHA-256: c9f98575f93077df57f0bdc4cf8556aa438ae10dc0e485b076baad7405153433
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as landing pages for phishing attempts or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755ac6cec51---fovokesedogixokobax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa2085134e---66119776245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f723c7ef9dc---zaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859aeb2f45b---17086133095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oducrmgnqq0jrvir616monfl28/24830162833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/26095798312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/64571307652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efea17b03c4---42035381247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pudg6a63b8svp9lbmfd5e7r8d3/47863421324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/tugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/55966241209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c11ceaecb4ad07f14bb6aa722bb697/pofowifune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/17652374639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-pod-rozhlednou.cz/img/file/16999081201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54353871105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c914bfdd46723c018f31a9873d0fb25e/mukobokenajomidulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/pagolusidekigixiveligamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srmu2fdmt101lamkdpeajlmv3j/xedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/13701963058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/730g60cgm56lp9i5glpcs8faqv/21625149020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/24872543806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9075f7ef50e7d424daf70ea0cf4377e/10588313998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90fe252135afc5115d66ff3ce17abbed/4185286605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161054145ee3f3---95948154254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=does+ustraa+beard+growth+oil+really+worksPDF 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_off0000e5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A4 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff14749ac8c33726f3cd5a30fe690e877fd85167b745463c9fd24ba29c7cfde
font_01_sfnt_off000110d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EA 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb32360559e8f29472d67c2c338b93e968128d89381a2577e6525e4334c9f31