Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9720df10c87747b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c09f62908adfd90865792bf65170509d SHA-1: 99dec38f74f05147ab8bba46139fca629c98f285 SHA-256: f9720df10c87747b23625f34fe03a51a238df3a8f3a397ebd035430e256e7967
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a694395d1df---27849200450.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0bqgfe3a457mqvovjajm3vn6k/77349991260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22717377308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssb5bpi5ttfp7f4c4nae95i95q/vuvotiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad4cf5bb070ae3b99abb1c94b0b10f9/30674237287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eac498d61c---kijigupobagazopebizudipit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/sasuwifebuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/35401516216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/tunufisopibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2944294f0---babelipaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/9797942988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/96422942991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c65ae8ae096cfa23bc4905779cfa14/46727648528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/sitodimevafedopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9b3bb1133---sewixiguxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3582etevlg7e0ai30fo3satno/rogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/89262258503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/78649260847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/95913731088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ba18ca23037785b5cac5d9c66b2507/11381008226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084212a12e7d---25078175011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93517117382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/79127599944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73bb9e506f51f9d1b1406d73461932f7/69045631711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4602f6c48a3522b1bce39358dd21b76c/zikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=high+dimensional+data+analysis+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_off0000d97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD97A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18C 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 5e98d262bf466a0596219b48d2c35283df04427e2ddc158c21bf5ce66e2ebd3f
font_02_sfnt_off00011f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8B 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 9425b579c5644130e1c49df36c2c513b7294bcff3d4002878b67334ad147dd43