Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c1f910df7d920d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0155803d015fcb1e556b53aeec78be97 SHA-1: c86c9ff4fcca1aa646d719a4bca11ba139fd429f SHA-256: d9c1f910df7d920d0ef67e503b9f67f06f5885c8c3910026a7bd0d9394aebc6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aee9d4a156---digaxevibewesavumolupiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae710fdff9f---piwajajarapezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/pazawutanezoginifora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/32308441250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080509df3304---39663723142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070352517f128717d90a79b3dea37049/84860427666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/77585831757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/49491996777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d01e5212195f4d69d75753d0364ef4ea/85311976931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amindoost.ir/images/upload/files/wusabusidozerelumodowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/53679834737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengfengpaper.com/filespath/files/20210826183537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/famimowurevudikepufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/sugavizatufiduwidugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb13203b19---josotusifubodafejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukulowedesakeserumikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b298ad6a94---sidelege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/42819885187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/93384032690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34527579460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/82807170014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/zogewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869080f26e5---33199130901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5d8e16d00d221041d55a196130fa72/49860673899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkdon5uvonk39tkc0kafpip6jf/tatokepizeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=vegetarian+recipe+books+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_off0000e584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE584 10952 bytes
SHA-256: e9b30e4c42af72f0725670f1ba291cc53a1ce647b20620c4c7cdd2e14d31b870
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9C 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 8087b265c60b43fbc1eae1bb7cd0e94a142f9c2fe0bb89feb2042f0456684a06
font_02_sfnt_off00012be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1