Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9599a6b3e881524…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21358871a08a19a653872ac2cb1b8a3e SHA-1: ebad8ceb9f08bb34c46803b5992e120a420311dc SHA-256: f9599a6b3e8815246e8072f4f49da53cb2b203e4a8731092160043216e8d1a24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and URL distribution suggest it's part of a campaign to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/kekupelorogudijeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/firexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210819163004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/xoselobapufejodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/xasevuwiwatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dc91d63bc---16862158529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crpm.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53664159800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c78b53d21b8a478322c464a676f6e15/wotuzowife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/71323800054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607752845d419---17230137554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/51254555912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161218fc076d79---nojiliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/12498719993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/kajaxowisosafupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607371f14c8a0---60794483484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/97049792860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec707d30d291e3a1633226fd62eb30d/69768832066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0e404b7fd9e0573a2ec1f0043e853db/31198485608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/buxafiropojonegawemami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-26/20210626090906881175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/94992938703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f552aa8dadc---lowata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b9e9eaaa7---33903637911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1af0057181873be85d2a640cad62892/kowifinusixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=such+as+andPDF 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_off0000e3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE9 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 072d5938fa1d4eff51cfe70614f381c938d20832cb4483a88c7521e0b07f3a12
font_02_sfnt_off00012965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12965 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 08f66ee7f10eafa03805d0f08fcc40708a3ad93737007ceab65dd022e6c4d88b