Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9d3fecc6b09af49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:41:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a7a779554187b92bff55d9ae38777027 SHA-1: f68190bdf73a45c0c1f5c40b22af1ebca316a656 SHA-256: e9d3fecc6b09af49978404e6c275cfb8325081ed385d28d961ea37d69e237bfd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious intent. The ClamAV detection further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1cfeacb54---zijiwakologutanerif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1b81efb7a---14645633434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhb55fi4mm90l3j29ijir0ls0p/kulizituxilulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios//files/ropogubisuzibozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msakq7oa2h6h7ljg1e9djho7es/88623245594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210621_094712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36d2ac304---60248333216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mu58i0utn6fj3e36veqlstbv73/gufisavotosirosodadifana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/suduruvozunizuxogogagesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/jepovudejazuzigavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc9d61da3b---sawuvesukibixowegapuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/69760603012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/41264220577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/lerunovuvorif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrwindow.com/clients/863399/File/dudadusilidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/6840539337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23603555085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/sutokopinipojagitomaximej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcr2ao5qe4m25og77ekprdpmqm/sazixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/vasomizirumedamefesido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/81955754537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38698867588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610629184795e---zenazubuganovijevuzigezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i56s05v9n527du6nqvgcltiiuh/didum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09dc3bf77a834118eb96ba60f6d14f77/budadibefilujifadigifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d885e79864---zotutegatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=distortion+in+welding+pdfPDF 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_off0000f8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D3 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 70ff58959959cf76a4d30fc375347f3b1b1212c64ce8e65b8fad458960fc5794
font_01_sfnt_off000110f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12905 17868 bytes
SHA-256: b801af5429c664c56dec0b391e0387b9d84ab31f244e99d73a0ed7787106ea38