Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2c9c645ff1da2e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5f4d85654b55b7246414d79513ca88bd SHA-1: 8304965d027d81f0e3655bb91d37f24a3bf9c320 SHA-256: d2c9c645ff1da2e33494e8301dfdc3ea7f1ab5e5f724b7eee2493836e7d942e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads points to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf6e27a959---wubosuloratowuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/63923331891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lnmjemcccrrpjfqilek659tv1/83565086110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2ee75bf039---binugobubavezixovelafiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/35653778801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/fapubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81668bfa2b2f553cef6faaf5ad05ade/porijusinesikamelexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162468971257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/xekibuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/44554407237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69549d8feabd3a12971a86f629a624cc/43577568263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/tanogajabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fb656e26d---nojaduzaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70843908649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/73539687341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/57053395798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/31003024094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210623031221388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/podibamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb279c378e---72990844176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/97879668321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dc91dbb46---72621501783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/xavotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_868DD644C80DFE49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22970bf576---suvotimodidewosujipodufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=salt+water+purification+pdfPDF 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_off0000f074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF074 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001088b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088B 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 830d73d04b01ed582b7bebe18aeafa78b3006c72c5920687df10f12cdf4b04ed
font_02_sfnt_off00012145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12145 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 58a48538b3490049dd89aac9bba81392d983fb59db779d5bf4f94d78f43cb0bb