Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9a047b5757a8603…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:27:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e4a443490941f6d2c562f0db9b6862ae SHA-1: 95d74134758d370e5e36ca9b4785067fdf75ab00 SHA-256: e9a047b5757a86039f17906fc44beddf46a8565b28ac1f2cf22a7b99e422ffa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to lure users into clicking and potentially downloading further malware or falling victim to phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e1272480cb132cd9c2ae1747550900/detif.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd78e5d7a3---rurululoxipivijofe.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu35si1s4lggvp2tnmead9m1v8/8008854139.pdf
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81146532731.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/zezezebeg.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b517abc61f7---63353080108.pdf
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9nbil90sma6du9u84kjsjpmsh/2398703959.pdf
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/bipujanezituzoxojemis.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53qbomu092ipmd5teq6dp3pbj3/35853671157.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b9cd26c23---82490355405.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18d901a78c1a647ece377f9fb47906b/sijeniwezuzati.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d33958880b963e22ed1228a17d4b1f/1536324037.pdf
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/26347060171.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3quml9pjpmhvoo8djbhht7jvj7/37655686668.pdf
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/remubivetenixebokumos.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/jivusu.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cac90e10d2---40890591208.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2185920626eaabd372b53e3e65ee904b/vinogojuvaxibu.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d8f97dc392ef9e3a8d8289be3249d6/33853658896.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5885db6902f28b1de87696c544ed00/wofafimegajomonis.pdf
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/puber.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=you+take+me+by+the+hand+the+office
    • 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_off0000fc50.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC50 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011467.bin
e2cbcadf040b39452465f6ce4e569f14513b36d3eb649c0392076ee441ff9968
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11467 10856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d49.bin
14baa11badbc7de4d0ac0c8506da2efc5a209c973b8070fde0eeb70d891b237d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D49 17336 bytes