Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9c3a979f0445cdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e44333cb58abc9b72bb7a0dafb6e0aaf SHA-1: e6e8bf5275610750ef44745d1a08947142a1d730 SHA-256: e9c3a979f0445cdceb754f4c1971194a31f0b7f707a01fe3d30634dd03b6e64d
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. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting domains. The presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content supports the classification as a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124363f26dd3---pejuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/92498851574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610df7fcf10d0---gitujadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabe50e3e68---21320071323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/34273705195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfff1ba65d3e7cbbb274d29b0095224d/lokobebori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waririvavawotagivebexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097259d76327---negusuzefibilimevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0lgq312rbnc6blrto6hcpcv43/kavufuxeleludopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a80f2c6d7---zojeduguwilotidokofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1435d65398acc851ae0584c3ea2005f1/36764759923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/kozuzemavibuloxonexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48416a8c48f75667e39a232cf9d6234e/51752196982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/nisixekupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511890201ff497f736bbe3b676ec724a/25517958282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/fekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/88954221639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62476d6d5a03a3853e167c9c257a2a48/savunatozitugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/16586823837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb651ac9dca4261d6f15e9540023f001/21719041042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/97234707519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e065052bcb---zurasavurusuwedemitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/lotiruzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foriburumuketotutuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pronounce+the+word+succulentPDF 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_off0000c409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC20 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 3b6a2f395359a2ba47adb0e948392fc0c94552d6f5f4c6aeb5853817d2f78563
font_02_sfnt_off0000f418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF418 18912 bytes
SHA-256: c7438e26064bdfa3ab9aa10d8bbc35ed46eda50a5049e5a146e6f4854696046d