Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b819c8c900371b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1dfc6d61cffa2845960c24e250ac83e1 SHA-1: 10c69d3c8508439e8b07c8ef5e0ddc5ed24d0f28 SHA-256: e9b819c8c900371b613f5c6b202c00a3d5094f23bcfc51aeee7bd8772d4e9465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The primary attack pattern appears to be luring users to malicious sites via a phishing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705d565a5dc---73894436244.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ba441cc9e0e73c09e08de7bde3b554d/zovibadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce7cecb774---68146456174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc75b7990a---85075484026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3o1609kr17ipt13suq6q889780/41879796106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814308d85d3---69469511608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3329ce5319ab3f84f8654e86e5bd05c6/tesuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17069eef14cb948008a5b00730b5ed80/dagatafipimapozasozogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f840c4a32a---nixadotimila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a096c1c48---75189491862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/30898838458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7426a863d---96615283882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/66244277406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9553479a76---35999990513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9f81b7cb6---76278011423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/38389111807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df07810f0f---59804180364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0598797001621477873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e3f7115dfb0afffda74fefa1ab61bb9/46579485525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc06e9d250d---18314004964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/77307049543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01db6ea08e---83557725522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a89a08420c30abcd4214bd3e5ac9068/83814886618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gadidupulefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=simple+one+page+rental+agreement+wordPDF 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_off0001024a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A61 10728 bytes
SHA-256: fa7fbac16a85904a0f5a91a2f099590fb753d8163f8a172720fe0e461b1f3aa5
font_02_sfnt_off000132cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CD 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 50eee32278fb02e53f3947787259553400303449727bd378fa9df701e1067423