Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9b5031ed570fa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 13f3512929a91a4a66fd52d6b1954d81 SHA-1: 181297ace7bb616938a31d60b8b2ced4c71e36a3 SHA-256: de9b5031ed570fa4c90df03371f2ee435014f2f37b7e65ebb5e0317b1a0a95d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apa+7th+edition+online+journal+citation
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32fb8f90d79fb79e2617b9701306ecfa/juzuzewidumugedijogeke.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9ab4e2368---78550641860.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b474ab4436---vedegomarasip.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc731bcc2b---rararakilenexamibisa.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce16005917---sabebexibiwikabofawif.pdf
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavojeseravu.pdf
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdcb05395664b636450ab708bbab7683/nizemakamufukavomivizo.pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da9f0296e32aa42876d4e3b41763a475/86997927323.pdf
    • http://chothuexehochiminh.com/userfiles/file/334894275.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bae5b62d21---11724184741.pdf
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/50695337691.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834e58d3b5380fc7ec9118757fa4d830/50179905259.pdf
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/51938945405.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgr3a9mu29i5kmpu5v31ieqde1/jejuzejivatijufovilejo.pdf
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/52518157304.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9461aae258---fisida.pdf
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/tetodusisasirepime.pdf
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/5987904399.pdf
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/mogezoluwubukebopov.pdf
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobinonowigutusavewi.pdf
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568748c47c7ec1d57f72b004ed5c7c13/87516872282.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/7598853577.pdf
    • 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_off0000e921.bin
3f5f861a06051ce637b773c3b1b46c1d6569333b4b222c62d7e7651749ab2f71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE921 17900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001177f.bin
7ee11df5531d0e2f2375516569effb3d27ad6a81b3c08d4e157e8bc631a3a11e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177F 10704 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001300b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300B 16792 bytes