Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9073f327658a9c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6bb749dddea977dfda83c093e44262c7 SHA-1: 9a3e9a1eddb93da0d1df6a33325edc9d8bdda95b SHA-256: e9073f327658a9c03c4e030e79c1d041975bbc80570031ea0e6ee0988207fc1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs point to a coordinated effort to host malicious content on various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://huiking.cn/uploads/file/230553186812.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6baae75c18---96043358317.pdf
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/wavam.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a1fa57e80c8ddc8f4578d901e094b1/17187139115.pdf
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210528125448.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c990ba40c01---towalusivikibabizajodes.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340895c83faec70ad3bc22edc897b240/bifamixotawipux.pdf
    • http://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/70859699410.pdf
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/xawanivagomalugowiti.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be955411e721fbd924d82272a17f7a49/dojafijojuxexirakeraw.pdf
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/70745068770.pdf
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a4ddcac1f---55653460504.pdf
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0449abd50---nevuvizaguvovilulimararov.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ebeeefa7f---lemawoseranokularusi.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84gccck7g1muktseh746fgmhc5/62326848241.pdf
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/57667033895.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742dd4394bd---68875302366.pdf
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca477bc79e6832e47ac6831e01fb556/82884013846.pdf
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuronapazakofaximuzi.pdf
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/72727284586.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070da0445daa---xulutimejerubefes.pdf
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/firuruf.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=watching+avengers+in+chronological+order
    • 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_off00010a43.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A43 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012255.bin
a24a170d7d62044dd8fae9b1bd992ef553f8bb138573e49013633a3db00689de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12255 17608 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014fa7.bin
17304ef2a69ece9272a14189a36ec6d28bddbefa9b87a9a68b1cbc1a3307c051
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FA7 10708 bytes