Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e957c9a6b45ef8a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f29fa5a211a1ee6ac57850546e3b6738 SHA-1: 974ad0a1f33d996b09ecb7fe8580913fcb2a6dbe SHA-256: e957c9a6b45ef8a0ee564dc8805b40d47d1352ccbe59bb340a05b3d538e9a887
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on disposable domains reinforces the phishing and distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d3885a5b2e---refeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ko3n6jnubvvdkiuapkbmrsji0e/zinisufikafusozokisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa90f6cb97b---nulevivapijagirozuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/muzafurarofidadiviguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f36a3c8d00f8c0e523a2c2f00e4644/83416550548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50566084386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/xafasuxitixubuwovogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t95j0srlplmh6uh4c8g3co86j3/kavumozidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/nibupetolaximam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff795daa2b---sujujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d42c09b325---vunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17429849430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/jajevakakudake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/vunofotijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b62912d3c---42413288633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/93866807629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltv13tuggs1n61jvgpu0qhf5pp/ruvibikalodawerikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607815f77b2b9---kixusibipofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigumilolamuduvokitagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c37666266---96772186701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53540a8e147ebc62236792fb28e9ab77/20790084910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de479c47efbc21b2516bb94d0a355138/vusopezikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/zuvavoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/bemilubagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070906501780554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+grapes+of+wrath+screenplay+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_off0000cab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB2 10968 bytes
SHA-256: d4c9023f6baae5481b7ddf58e1e77f2643baabf5bb6fb0924d0e7f2e761d2fc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE402 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 87b62b4abcb712fdd29896e0c4e90c86975c249e20228ed736acbf9a2acd0d95
font_02_sfnt_off000110ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1