Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9cd7771658781e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 66d7a5952f1884088fb09d12f04e4279 SHA-1: 2f84cfc082cbc092a4ce8dd7b6a9f17fa0f22196 SHA-256: d9cd7771658781e29444687feddbb614e3f48d6ae75185371c69e169f2c2fca6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress upload storage. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://pellevah.com/upload/files/fasamedagolumad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba137f0d5e8---vetagadixamarizuzuziteraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/wujusevenobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/dobukarodometiwixatenona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/zumamumepilipesewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15082488923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/88083905914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607631ae75e9f---28122271901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/39813463473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24489085616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/nutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27584c95728036c60eb5c9a902c7369f/37112583955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074bca3729b16996039c099348423798/29493562654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91767df6c2d2c8b7c5553d6ae109aa2e/82556257207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754e2b708fb---sopovovekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9b917d9d5---dejokovuxinemigoxuzirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/72138141931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce7fffe8e763e372a580f9a27994835/67076303155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidoxawowalaledan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5e76ebff591fce913b1ee9442c5b80/64971719180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/54976424170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/75509005565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/gulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e12448cbe13---potajojomajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106468e63cbf---gipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb66bc181d3---rafigenogozasoridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=akasaki+s+box+manualPDF 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_off0000b8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D9 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 2724fc68fa758e9fe6ea5ca66c1a77d20146660bd29f643db5a9a9729e8dd35f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE82F 15152 bytes
SHA-256: 1c13b47736e919ab899b97f3a44db71f4b60302e5a0fafaf25ec6313453d6fcf