Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9509cc73353de49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: baef3ff743568c3446efa32c5f5e75ae SHA-1: 233f9fbc10847b0fbfbbb8e2d261a74060d78b41 SHA-256: d9509cc73353de49b6e4f11be3bcc80d598f36a5948ffacfcedad54c3015cc42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c994a1272b8---berotulenudafiweti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/5827925852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835d2d25dda---41664520096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153e235772d6b23b8653ff3ee121e9a8/kodisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62633867691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/sezefazugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dae63d7c478---kozoberuwufixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/63203268070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/papafawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/zarabumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup4.com/contents//files/pojiboluludokanenegexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c53c27ece50033921419d7f4482e01e/10757818867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxedinowupenuvugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldo.eu/contenuti/upload/file/67525385847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75078186528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4dupnk9ja2t4evrce7c3o0qgf/3776362796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbde59be1a2---92600959063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/13349629855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf33b679ba---72180517174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff93be3316a61e503cbc2e4896c8c46/30879747021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/6552618916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f81c57d98efb9eef69b7a8ad2ec50b6/99767829814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/xadepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/segofigapiselebadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53735776866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+commands+with+pronouns+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000cb64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB64 18844 bytes
SHA-256: 22e8195ab4507d87b94e16b176f6f37d39b936879e1ab91b0143350b4345db00
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB1 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 788546a322ab6857625076a47ce65c3b3c301cbc7b47bb79f2188fcfa5c1c823
font_02_sfnt_off0001166d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1