Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9fa599fd6ba280d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b9eea631bab1fa31d9eca39c46cc1336 SHA-1: eb965fa2cea8c8a6ae6e6b4bfcb48ce7be0e9e11 SHA-256: d9fa599fd6ba280d3f983f76fa47574db4a7d001ce61383ff294eee7f7718496
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a multi-stage attack designed to obscure the ultimate payload. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports its role in a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450580de9e4e4172570791c8b400f4eb/losupudopawita.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609149cfef7df---bojifubinegikoj.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0qct0crq5et1t134ac4qle8nj/miguxabesajanonoxenarapiw.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/513202e27f40c1995170480f4a304133/23272181473.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb8la4m2unn7q0rgi7cagt8c42/92608805957.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/belakapojofixa.pdf
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/74889579133.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a609abd551---44259058618.pdf
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5756be112993a911e2f83e6ccd138f/xodibolaliliza.pdf
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/tufiviputiju.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/puritupumata.pdf
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f41d7cd05996c047550acd7f9543158f/20342849217.pdf
    • http://charnafamily.com/clients/60216/File/14218783083.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c323dc97f---40157779504.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufbuomq16jejpqmfnk37d0j676/24758420917.pdf
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebekor.pdf
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/21962287595.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779234c42b7---15926416722.pdf
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/kasigedu.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28b0e6e74b---13269951988.pdf
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/28676093010.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e354b4622900b4606e1065be91ec2a37/bogotixunefutukejagi.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0d3bab028---14320206537.pdf
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/8405893680.pdf
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/261509920.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=fifty+shades+novel+online+reading
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0d8.bin
3de94890acc1674c5129beedae1a1f1bb5d4c42558d305995b365f1c0b2f7240
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D8 10792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96e.bin
7d9b00cb58cc3704f11d3e0102c0ff7aac388654ade80fc636fc1ab2a9f199ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96E 15656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000101dd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DD 16792 bytes