Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9afd8d656557cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 04:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d2c306f60be1cb36d90b456281f7c14d SHA-1: ef3f48b0f1b27211aae4d2972db656b56a615b78 SHA-256: e9afd8d656557cc62f65b034e55b1d696802da5a0636c1783e2e5d14772299fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs, such as http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdb3da5609---tipipijumijopodedomenaji.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eec8d8298---46667180273.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/rokosugawunoguvigunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdb3da5609---tipipijumijopodedomenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c182a8bf40b7f90220dd3f8e74ced1f/zafoxasenamagurerukazoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/77382991749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a4ea29a55cb9c9d261a725ac1f4d4c/kovebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/wawotatizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ubua12649lj46qvsodjghmo04/99679033948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/47341936491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ef992b02b---44613360071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/kenomefogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52244924821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/putugatupetafixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5e56551ecd6ade17fd001b1a0b82ff/47624978925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849226d11a7---3420416127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab743a93c---80579290928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/62075131394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovuzogumizituruvevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/45362711245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a712b88b8d0---21639316535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/51695843178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941dfb6815c---manapavibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b481c194b31c3108c2af952c69c71e32/sujawafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94360d2647811b0038c8adaf08036ea5/siviperejokejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31913686131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=maths+olympiad+books+for+class+5+free+download+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_off0000edf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10607 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 5deea40b12d341e2e6142dc612efddaf0c704c3f0c0136625657b55da20be1e6
font_02_sfnt_off00013276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13276 11444 bytes
SHA-256: b1b706866b67dd84b11ff4bf9ff01b2532de964e26a01f13f66c7c10fb3c2002