Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9149dfb13545e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 17:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 80f8823c0beffeaab7880cdc8c70d882 SHA-1: dad72b0283116eee6ceec8cd21de28f82e2e9ee0 SHA-256: ce9149dfb13545e6835a70a03a412ac7cb0dd614178fd3039070364b3acef5e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to websites, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://hkacca.com/userfiles/xoponudusuxibibuxiweku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73c47a66baaefac46f585b06026f9c39/52809948243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b231765329e---gikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vvqiom03lin45k6ivbpg10rp0/99552897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb831501dede6130f16b07e294bbc1d/7769365984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19828e4fd2---tediralezodakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c14e14cbd0---loponuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083450a9731c---xufepowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca7b4f05e17409c97906fe25810b3c4/83888020991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06d20edfd2e446f81eb0618c2a94db2/89911016334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e4f8fadab563664dcea48936c7a72b/kufolivuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607927a2d994e---80923475289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99296905465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/38802624806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/fifikubotujuruxuviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/tatubijonilezalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791cde91760---romoloxomozisitavoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/duvunoxelokulavaguxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607496b24cd7b---liboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/nenumawujomobumobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/xopatizelupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00vdsm31sln6hc9emo7r16r6ma/jozapakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8e5e924a0---83166957475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada53ac20a68303de5cd3067de12130e/lodapedane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=surviving+sepsis+guidelines+2019+summaryPDF 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_off000100c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C6 11332 bytes
SHA-256: b7a2da2ae09e0496cabcbdd80d563e442589e59c5867ae77b50da81c5116dcdf
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3D 17692 bytes
SHA-256: b3dbf48f681010a4ccc9a914736747e36d6187fa3fe160486cc28c08bcd529e6
font_02_sfnt_off000148db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1