Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9e58a0f218bf7fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:09:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 01cc0686c85ea8c4a9da14ea1f894a7d SHA-1: f1f3d910f7b31e36c11357624714f5d7bd468843 SHA-256: e9e58a0f218bf7fe432649a43cbc406ae5b7e71396e551db49c15e5ef2c7651d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on compromised sites suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4ba999648---48589530513.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee28891637---bininilime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/95227327965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/52366943860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/bikorosasefolipiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/48978525241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/9656297995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/41847955850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads//files/202108070809265463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somkuthyoptika.hu/editor_up/5092547160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/59283758309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/12974175143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/87689155111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072679012ceb---varag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pifupalomofala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb099a25ac---78774471668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/25124647571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c73e890620e1c2b0c0535f1b42a456c/pukiwamopetebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb02roj5prq277kthh7d6f0t67/sinenobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9312c9b8ba115f1d98291fea29b0414e/56911103891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite//images/uploads/file/bubetosezulumojamuragolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6f16c4ca20405a988cbf17f0cd1ff4/bifajida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/81516336876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/betedubanozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=a+awesome+dayPDF 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_off0001020a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020A 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 6f32edcb2b7ba71230833fbf2a667a4103167ac5568985a6b71799f2390577c5
font_01_sfnt_off00012ea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146BC 10148 bytes
SHA-256: ab5cbb524d54e1a14dadcb622111ba0dad992e95f3c2e1f6162b2f6fc171418b