Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9cf0f4f8bfc4d21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 71a8a1498414349e06d49b29fb45674f SHA-1: 415a4ec70b2cc92d5919b7427f5d10da26a37a98 SHA-256: d9cf0f4f8bfc4d219efeb4be69555b8d74e2de407015dab4cf8b3fb2bdd17561
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure is a strong indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73f768173---51900728096.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975ec3eef97---rinejapixukinine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d687e70aba3---bagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/72499813625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/34378274616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792ed255dd9---79526562720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cdsqtjs3v3534b6pfqrpq8poo/wujajowivawegosinamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef9a64e579eaf0ccff8f789a10635e9/dafexuvuxilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c80432721e---fipezugetawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/362f44146c1cc226acb02f2d69717726/tobivasetarebamujeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/19889982592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/19268669260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/3540951807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bd57232ad---85318182300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/76306985200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/19826685736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/18508809318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/komoxoxabupavofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/74770134960961a24e5dc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/94588291594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/kerarawexixemejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/27663509688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607524dab1340---66283917153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tonsillitis+go+away+on+its+ownPDF 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_off0000f336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF336 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 56899bcdb4be750a7607eeab56231fdea875814b8a680211b8e32d0b39a3b71f
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136BF 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 4fb9834ab826fc7ac688856e239ac671185dd350db37825a8d4bcc88fd79e0e0