Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f09a797628d5bedf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3f4354df5e5830c54f5d6b4be3198fde SHA-1: 4e8186dd8b40e36628d128ee8fef54431d9c8f62 SHA-256: f09a797628d5bedf1b1fd80250aecfa50187349e31502560f3d8d26d72f2fc1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where users are lured to click on links that lead to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e9aa2688e---zozusoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_8E7229B9ECAB34FB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/dikewadeniranejekemurolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d9e07c76b---78184541278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613116e61e24f---selurilinofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/79536908831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-leasing-management.com/uf/file/waretunazujijodenulefelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/70313567534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkind.net/userData/board/file/58748678310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/87017516771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/dagibavilovinanisowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/dirazesejasijunugasonujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7e93ac7918895f086af9e9784218180/35535695648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/razugusakabelisezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjpharmtech.com/upload/files/porexemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff4fd1c2da---lefogozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210912001857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abhinavabhishad.org/userfiles/file/80892519582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/76619438426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/vubowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/28381256464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerokikugimimuludosalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domadoma.cz/userfiles/file/30301783351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/55820435409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7d10bc8b1---16154642121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37441352515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://training-access.com/upload/file/fopuwukofokibeweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/gobewegolapikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+temas+para+celular+samsungPDF 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_off00011605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11605 19360 bytes
SHA-256: 30ed459121f07c200607be41c9ef622f364b7a9c3d1e7230ad72f7056fbd0a22
font_01_sfnt_off00014581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14581 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 7f2c01421bce467edb1a7ccffe9be74397feb4fdba567bf391249a0e39e3ed6c
font_02_sfnt_off00015e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1