Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9ed939603b80f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a20dfcce10582293cc3313ed0f15b407 SHA-1: a75dc08eb13f323f38e0420501ecd9c66fa67cdf SHA-256: d9ed939603b80f124ac96cf2422ecac87322beabe32654101d3723956333863e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. The presence of numerous external URIs and the use of compromised CMS upload storage suggest a campaign to distribute malicious content through a chain of redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbff80aa760---pipug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/gedufefazeluvaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b21e2bff3---45784732826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4277501d5---pusejunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b4c770ca7b0---voziviperewewoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088892d586c1---musupudikofixodadomaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7d7422991e96a24dbc29ad1ae1e5d9/74980241883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/96739948775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/lemomabetapazanudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/dadenibunopezonefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb00d82e10d---zuzaruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7e3ee7140---42544555309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/dosubugapegepatuxemisarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/5286879986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/zawigamabiluretakebomibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902c54b1f3a---vepubudoxivefewifixefaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c5097782d---jobegulibenujirovenox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da514b251---59179754783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/9824576865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c06e9ca804d3da7b48435d5111344526/pavebisadikofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-31/20210531021027944286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5ee08ba05---67936502955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ape35chbvngv05kvaugse5m4ln/22177734469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/xibugewisatosoritoxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06i9a3jaf5s37ap795vroses98/wosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=complement+probability+definitionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001035e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035E 25404 bytes
SHA-256: 40122a9c1754ae33b7f73d02bade986867b885c2d2010467eb990e5a962aa4a4
font_01_sfnt_off00013e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E16 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 334db44678b642c40fce67aa60229e3326d0ae47e5019fe59d0e7f4011f55e11
font_02_sfnt_off0001569e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1569E 16244 bytes
SHA-256: b1ef7b52ed35dfd01120c19ee4193d967dc828f2fc549fe1a2d8c3c5029b4647
font_03_sfnt_off00016c8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1