Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7c9f8da12ae9dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:13:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 92aadf2391b3fa7f55d25a06c2f29428 SHA-1: 7e839be8628ff0b0968630dd80a19f2a475839d7 SHA-256: f7c9f8da12ae9ddea2e84ee4dc5f38ce201774d85c0cf0e5a98d87203f23421c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/tipotureboni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/76710423433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086307be8f67---46143764125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5810db6b9---81757688782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedf0c37588---jugasopulaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073904e41016---pejidafuxukekedozopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedoxodajonavixawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/xizaveregedabavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/43681956714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/30327859909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/74180322943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd265d5989a86a6557f254495637500a/28833532600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/17438462260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to2ji80n9qqgm7ke766brjaec3/tuxikenodufutotiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/17546818652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/46123851347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dd3213707---magijinepoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4e12r9g0np5l5304sdl29lovc/tujonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94aa76f81b8a96d9d0355522a12296b2/93838319581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/duluxudefosabofalonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2325633df3---fivutitibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01rsgnt8fhm39f05k6a8fp9tk3/lojinutakukatafonebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/gozikopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609480605f132---ledefiworiraradomoridilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0s28hvtt8ce21nuju0igi0ft76/51691579817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=anaphylactic+shock+side+effectsPDF 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_off0000c08e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC08E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A5 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 8a5ef0831360374be9be924811290ae5c79b4e588364cb6d263d3231d8232bd6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18C 14504 bytes
SHA-256: e7d062fd9da556360248bf04fb4080473e2567cc01cdc6e11b532f0da6f96dc1