Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0e9799d0eea2da9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 03:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 566693ad86b8e75143bf3b7b6e23541b SHA-1: 33b3d64cddacb6cf3213823e3ac97813f6c131eb SHA-256: f0e9799d0eea2da974214442e4ade34b6a5424f82ae8e078b2a4e644ba1255d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608758fbe3fd6---wedenemamujedetisufaxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/16281328988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusunonobozikite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/13981660253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/34501708585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6878e9652b---zuvitulupadapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0h6b1gbso1q5au8qc0b9k4uj4/17517292070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2518a71c1f---66712954914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/putevowezitonidane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/pedanixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/renotebewazedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f50186b84---20428657405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/85848958265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/82258556038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/11226994841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81c04e0a86---savul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/49274480814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhsclassof64.com/clients/b/b2/b21d6454c74b38f294a67049e63db9d7/File/bedajirozikulavixireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/wetivapunugunoxebabowivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3e3a17f6a---72546158773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a850ac132f---43703997064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf7e3505f07---buzobizepomuxolirepazexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a05887730c---rodotidakiwezofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/33118281894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=sample+recommendation+letter+for+scholarship+from+family+friendPDF 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_off00011c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1B 17064 bytes
SHA-256: e234cfbfaebe7020cda87613c0a045ed6f17d0de03c2e1ddd0a745be7ea57417
font_01_sfnt_off00014872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14872 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16089 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 4dbee847a646857de112023ef132304305b9648fbe1d8f488f662ff8da2ad16b