Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9a2cc9123784e85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 13:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a350953bb7f7132b42253e5c9d64173e SHA-1: a8603173f48285a1680decd62d9bece21c8285e9 SHA-256: e9a2cc9123784e8535fe2881ee73d2b97550d4cf47e990ab6fe2c371f1591e29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a tactic to lure users to malicious content. The presence of link farm heuristics further supports the interpretation that this document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

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://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6842c5e6b---10312975030.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613537e04bfae---joxubumebirejexofexazosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78232463848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/somurotogamutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df73a0de2c923369774f8aace29838d/jerowepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diadiemvui.com/upload/files/xirelaxoridavolokanonige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/wuralokolasipedivokiwozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/20050646944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvantindat.com/uploads/2021-09-23/images/files/16939155413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409e4abbd7d---jefuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136894dbd3b2---vodemusixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braveathlete.net/geektic/files/xikakodubugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budget-pl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76629729114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/38727123453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/kerarapibusujodelafotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/bapubikara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93914180805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/vimagamawagesatibukime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/loxogerewaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahyi.ru/images/file/84833035284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/xiboxatofizola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/61056278738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruja.lv/uploaded/file/pinagamimuzenasususemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trnk52jhj405qd2oqth6t4n3hh/96117738267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/24077817910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=locus+gis+appPDF 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_off0000b414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB414 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa1c640ee9ddb2b6aa1f171ae41db76a787e7e2cd47c0ae4c29244d378f5101
font_01_sfnt_off0000cacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DF 15376 bytes
SHA-256: 937735b5e52be05536097c80b3686161c0bfa315f0ab55596881d3894cd5727c