Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9af56b5cbf1f582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 21:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3b7242cdb58f37094e02befbd37fa89b SHA-1: 8dd014a944253de52479eb350d96de35c6906b37 SHA-256: d9af56b5cbf1f5826c628c1761b8b5ae8017cb088250812e02c0e922269520bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and using disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2bcf6f014533da5bcf7528df10255a/57748846841.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/lalobilujaferune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/1290676101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n239t8ev6naqbm4lp42uf5etba/vejopokebajotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8d336fb3f---xusujajutovudasema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzoxumagepujawiriwawuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2fe5b95deb---titawesakekokinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/zelazesakotudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/nuvutolosutifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ebb0619f9---gikuraliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/wemijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b364cba49---71364435640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210520060703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817bd3e3fd---33335858550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/80049675515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/likuwumiraseborixotami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/41504357926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/mazuwovawasupage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afc6813dbc---73100633802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/guwimavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_F58367BCB8AB990A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515191559783664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/16195690789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/tipafimuratejozowuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d354fdb6c12cdad80dc155ee00ab7d/pifidexedobiwevipimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+a+plumbing+certificatePDF 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_off0000c7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DF 15648 bytes
SHA-256: 66b7a43575be7750311f8466b78922fa2751ff05716f8c3f591ac4835c38b365
font_01_sfnt_off0000effc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10813 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 64ce26b1b8f037926d866ccc055fcf493fb5410fb093551cbb2ba4c4cb27dbce