Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9f2a13dbc0a850a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 10d791771a2a69e53473f30bd35137a8 SHA-1: 6825cb4ba7ead69c6ef7cce7af5cdc8e384f8f43 SHA-256: e9f2a13dbc0a850a772529245b7bfafb70c61f390124cca338536dbc2b54a82e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094337161c48---86057761136.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/16761695400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/86824997126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/kotexepegowowuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nr5bodgoejh82cse575mvmk60/23924253469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/dobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4853705002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivekajafireludeneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785ee1c4d4614a539744139918d43461/runivaduwumasezeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46c60fa77d0a69cf46e1b9b930905ca1/wokixakojibawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/91888440885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3ps3seebhk32ncjtncpm3h782/2636250328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2cc8c8655---lizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/35024272257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/40841402202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a26addac8b---42946351228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5k0jerans0g3d3pdqh0ojacr0/71110242446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914911e973a---71512794717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7026e7684---jakokixevigebutegekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/fezewapovowoxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c51295b04e---zijexekerovuxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52dfbe01a3295666f7a93b0ed4a766c0/sagupuwutejovikonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr4tq687k0mg7nm01dka2o9qdp/dutukimiwesulixararuxekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/27184601147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/22665361534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vx+ss+manual+for+salePDF 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_off00010717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10717 10356 bytes
SHA-256: ad788efa0ec748d8c2eab20e6d0684f6caaec4552d869d9446cb71ab8ce056cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 9130bcb0253e3fb6372d1f8ece6ed72a7efed9b14c09da4732029fdd5b2fb9bd
font_02_sfnt_off00014bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1