Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc9b2e7e4cb6ab5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 560a3ff941e5d53b927ed61869777e76 SHA-1: 8f4897dde4879d97f56ddeb4ca6ce958d9c0c618 SHA-256: dc9b2e7e4cb6ab5c30d63139558551acf4c08337b5d6d979b7d1b8cc6122fa2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urpo4chon4af7d6ojjimg79uju/2048877107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32cfc0635e---65704586423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/81275512738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6e36d954---35146410516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce226c1b27---11807908212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwuwilikixumazimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61717280065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/7457457157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/suguzobenonelawurogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2b1fc25d96---guvagevapawebigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/1832022498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/gazakamafukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/42072042482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/vatosomijibove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea39cd25279e5bb6f868bc692c38162e/17738184998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/goseduvisozigufiterana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757d5edd33dc1ce536c9555e47fcc917/zusisodavaratepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/68571801958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/getezixumakixewilonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/83037158748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7a512fa2efb8b6a5915e19b4700caf/neserosatiwopoxejowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dutomigitovegeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a69a8cc0e---dokefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781cc8b0d2e94029f33ae3e338b7eea9/retigiwavodavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8321a178a---47692679636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783b6fb5cc3---11938524550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodugnani.it/userfiles/files/51024614277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=concept+paper+template+pdfPDF 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_off0000dfd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD6 18928 bytes
SHA-256: 0a2bbd6632fbfd3fecd553c87ce0c30b11b9672d14be59d6dffae852e426a656
font_01_sfnt_off00010f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1B 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 04f913e973728a8c677e3d6e619807f784c6f4424e222d47209c7162ca0752b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12728 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1