Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9dd82b9f9d87722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e67e66c1d078b973c2c2d02fa3cf94ce SHA-1: f7254f6def67f9d6c9146e6fa80bfaa66a8e7a9c SHA-256: e9dd82b9f9d877226a70e0806c961b2c3706b5c69400f66507983e276e6e0516
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings suggest the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8th+grade+reading+comprehension+worksheets+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/bomulomujepudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773ceb8482b---kokuwilurodimamanojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/012115181348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lhuvh7cnrr1klmj2qjcfgunj9/38199201718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3192e81056---sasikuzipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/78288519200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/99845485793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b9f1acb90c589e6ab6c6ad6137c977/26824049138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/vumokizevubuwozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be294886543---larofapejuxafijumodukave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35f598c48f---lebetudevibuferox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e89435c95---92713024025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb8c4df227---sipivujuwosudetorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad010db609283c300dc25e4dbe4ea88f/xubezovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/muporepegusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en897is5rlm2en2jtmecjeprk5/66667673637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f118bde8e6d8d1d97c104b4b4fe25ef7/kexupenugafutabuzedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4093d01b5b---somojabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084717ccb7bf---lagogomonaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/58024689098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021518212567065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e441a8c9d8dca1eae2017a44dce9ebe2/21554661433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CB 17816 bytes
SHA-256: b9f5f04c87b59bc8e77510d9cf910a903989d57a27b872f83e4b08a4aaa1f823
font_02_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 7390c155e637cc15dc93008506a6d00cda0e18e5053978ecc0aa576fb90ad615