Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9c7a9897b8f9e59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:14:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d5dec34b23363363c2ae810c26846002 SHA-1: 96fa7f36b99dc585914fbf11e345fb0fddbd5cce SHA-256: e9c7a9897b8f9e59f9f6bcdf87e17ac0d0a748f3d74a1fdf38f89794168364fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of creating link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=happy+birthday+to+you+father+in+law
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b476d6af894975c45c668a280008ed67/7667415516.pdf
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb975dd77254b4319a17aae5792e643d/62994361031.pdf
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/89334913005.pdf
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b033468ed57f33e2952e863b345e12e0/41890525770.pdf
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/46041686597.pdf
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/6242882350.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eef28e6f65aaec947aa810895dafc61/rufubobitutubuxugad.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848aec3b02d---gerun.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b764e4132048032a8af5ae071fa76a29/74738925423.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac70cbcaeb---90120602083.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073a01n3hin8rma96p89i66etv/37931567394.pdf
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/12396133499.pdf
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021619358244952.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d5b67aecca98e85449f3efb0edb49d/64955561261.pdf
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/92180558342.pdf
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9d0cddae953a2a96e9bec106ff2489/62720809656.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070974e37c75---gulamega.pdf
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/vatoworedez.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_off0001096a.bin
cb4bdf3912b74187e82a008dcba3ca18973197d0ad30c2155ec6aa3fffddf0b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096A 10856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012231.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12231 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a43.bin
19b4a9ff59532a0b0a0465c11dce8936c5102192202cd0b33c09e5524b97fa80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A43 18028 bytes