Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9e84ed8ad3fe2ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:29:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 622201e95fd5ee16354c8ee6db3a288e SHA-1: 8e9328dc44067f8e2c7c659a824b6042502069f2 SHA-256: d9e84ed8ad3fe2ac4cfd3b2342b8b8bf60a41e6cdde8ee196a9ccf64bbb84015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malware. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/58697936442.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a76038d71---durabuzurewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49b15776da93f36e26d9206a29c1eb8/87744388948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07r2q5umurg481obtn676c8ldb/76869828802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/86176316994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/73671109755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755c6203d2f---68759741774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc71500d5---37994100481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a73625332a---7235913737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/47473926740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://animaliadielisa.com/file/bifozigivisopirabapami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/45426480839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5afdf2e3619a6ce22ae4c7fe2b69ed/94808290272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adee688853c---kokesipaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097656691289---31897219452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f42f358e3---95942168023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e76ff36d5---sakidogekidisuvikipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/5715246096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797a729d398---xazawidivekegotebeliwipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da674cf83d---jejazumebitepefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5tbps1q2shikpm2hmq92ntr62/80962555718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a848a6494db---kidiroxutofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee2f0424e745f830cd3fd478d9eb373/nofodulugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qeka2m701mmnmtm2vc0cam1v46/suxubakijopibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a351fd0c673e7c25bc3821d4cac8edf/43243498330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545f7b88e07663daed2e413c630d6e18/dufezufexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=miami+valley+south+hospital+phone+numberPDF 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_off0000e347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE347 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB59 17588 bytes
SHA-256: bf10eb42ef962ce2d09759d289960d55f26eb2a5c70875eb08f6fcb24b3c312e
font_02_sfnt_off0001295a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295A 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 40a716ad4eac702ab290f7257681fa9381f1b08c1386a2bdca591a5e8018feec