Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9922a860d8fad5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:22:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c15f7bff3725c772d0f66396215d770d SHA-1: 08531dcd4041936a969623d7fa2c98b8d2103479 SHA-256: f9922a860d8fad5ab93139eaff07e3c2dea6de89973b0fe7d5db33f7d377c515
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613901a5b15a9---81864422000.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b89ab654bb---xisolibajefimekapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e76fa8944---39602997066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73752264397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b10d903686ff53e272693fdbd536a93/givusugurefawabinafokezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132214e9b5f5---bufemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilatesyoga.hr/files/files/32012932594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/bigejobofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/babote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sczct.com/up_files/file/30288567154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/47401180222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/62517332834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/67005597572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/nerujobuvolubunegajonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/12917945528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/rivudepabonazatoxoromid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-norwa.pl/userfiles/file/sejazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/95289032985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40056549727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/21046764972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/90732909881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/dibobafatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents/files/88229439782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/vigeludedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/24960354088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=s9+plus+display+sizePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424a615b664---94750089812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001bbf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBF6 10480 bytes
SHA-256: cdeec7c79f72a7e930db1c2d853278a7a77c93b3bf7310e958ff73ba404a865e
font_01_sfnt_off0001d3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3EA 19084 bytes
SHA-256: 46c35729636344310e9f50f8ca4035ceda4cf9dce3a0b3a4fd10871e8f28bdcc
font_02_sfnt_off000205f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x205F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1