Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9bd602dccb6a5c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6ee653fb3601d0ddc5897d04149a5aae SHA-1: 43fe13e7880a03caa67c52c86ebe10b676baf08b SHA-256: e9bd602dccb6a5c8f8efcfcf62539f724b6c984f402374a3cd6764698db0c6ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be traffic redirection or phishing through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dad7b9c78---vadexab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/89680093205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/96414984307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/98374448594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colantuono.it/userfiles/files/30266724884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/pavakunapovelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67837027953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/83484542132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614099706a4ea---gerixuzemupejugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb221df653---63512798445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e97fd4552---68698173670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/vafagirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/jesuxenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136511c31ee0---dawavokulalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/wusiditilujapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/xetizisegenogupitozeveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sosixijawulikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/8600855185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokusejixuludijojuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/92509203794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/kijakenogolitavukogawawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/33064686965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/28083615875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/26490599290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138db5572fee---99266846685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=multiple+pdf+to+excel+converterPDF 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_off0000e6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 9a9795aad2df478e133b6cd9fe0769fc5d4764f0ee3a4aa13fd50c14e3b76211
font_01_sfnt_off0001147a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C91 10544 bytes
SHA-256: a1290f36fbc243302a31343f8e28eb5d2ec55ecc214c57c2cf2ec875492ea8dc