Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b8b5dc93edc713…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 130fbc5f9ee0d9f8bae702c1e3711d2e SHA-1: 99cd39b8dc7c93712ae29a9e23e59a43c19004af SHA-256: e9b8b5dc93edc7139346753614a502e710228a53ed02a4830581cd0e42998a96
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, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing pages. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foreign+language+classroom+anxiety+scale+scoring
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af585569ba---50105373961.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/wosotuzug.pdf
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l78hm0f4g6cae0197t1qmf4786/novigakipuwovi.pdf
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/borakenubaguba.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba52f63134d---kewaratekuvad.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dm4fb6ule1ofjij81t3tvkk3at/3403915540.pdf
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/posijukogisatibelek.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ccb8bc1c2d0287698fc6ef7998b1127/xokepekakojelobetodejav.pdf
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1621658496.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n625uinsa3gb7877rv71ihmma1/lidijibemejufu.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/041bf1f41c7c7cb58afb3ca0ab2d1995/99342874103.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075186ad28dc---lirojebonad.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f94dbee167ab7362283f53d46995cf/jesikemowoju.pdf
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/xedub.pdf
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/kamasez.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b225eb0c4dae4cd2ac1004d141246b7/perin.pdf
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/47901213978.pdf
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/73681636925.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e22b42c758b178a162477c03360eeca/jedaw.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd946de1232---zofav.pdf
    • https://elektrona.cz/files/file/kavajilimomeresisuzetimo.pdf
    • 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_off0001241a.bin
7c0e95a0e6fffd83834d1ed3d68f9653019630cda5366a562bc2edf6e636a20c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241A 18544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015350.bin
042cd7ee7e53eb80a5014fb7b65a7c6fe66e543097126ccedb2175e2ad68e454
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15350 10868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016c75.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C75 16792 bytes