Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9130d3083f493fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ff398bf2d35e88491203e0aeaf810ee1 SHA-1: 511ae87d7953f1b9a3be435bbbd6b38ff5133df8 SHA-256: f9130d3083f493fa4a1702d941d6d10bc5ca4d04fe7d37306f696f31a1818259
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of WordPress upload directories suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and leverage potentially trusted infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f738903e1ab2ba6f38276d2465ed2f/80669863950.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tuhs1970.com/clients/a/ac/acc339db084e87cdfae31a76a6c96f1c/File/sapexuvozitibaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6625c47c45dbf01c3898e1f665434ad6/jenolopado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59d7ae23913681a6b52a5ecab7bc7cb/64518040560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3uqngrnhspc2gi84hr6udfvqo/derokibokomiritomipunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d73ebccef---53620317560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/fesiduxasezawesizafawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/67052301576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/82109641034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/9739986837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d6571e11845363f43ae3db0ae544c2/desedoderafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/35872798812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpomjhh4fhl75qrurcegf97k33/vupajudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj328dsv5du4rqihhoo9ikebhb/41975635328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/vumawusulofudujaluseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e8d42cd6c---voxupajedeputijabaviwotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/19052369649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/93765834793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/50871729276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/wekilaxififogigisiwobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2mula1aq5gm155iss9spcggjv/16221413717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85e554af45---52477638009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8affd43127a753c3e3f3e30357874ac7/6114684963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/85080319373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5i6qe4s8bv59t2pgkdddsbq11/93038032829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831011f1928---37974309761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4ue3m4pcvbdmjvjsb53tlkgt9/bopojazizufepavojiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=documentos+completos+del+vaticano+ii+pdfPDF 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_off0000d253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD253 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 4c492f54966c4aedb1e2c792be3e1f1b7500ec1f423e3bc1985a8f036361e99b
font_01_sfnt_off0001015c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015C 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 6c34718a7c614626ebabbe1d5eb43da56ba9e0ed59756adfeb3c7ecb376241ca
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1