Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9a8ff15657066e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 32b4e4eb55fa05cd6e57ef85e8e4b0ee SHA-1: 36bed1e774e302ebde4d84a9ed3e9a64e233bb06 SHA-256: f9a8ff15657066e47708b40a17e44c808eba6ea117814c4bc739769cbeb08ca1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a strong intent to lure victims through external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=staph+infection+on+body
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe76b5b1ab---tawozatosapuposo.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6127ce481---81590413236.pdf
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/juwuzixosenosoj.pdf
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92dec1893ef9787153084796a20b97c0/lumedowozuxazapanomab.pdf
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50f5337a8d---9372135139.pdf
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b8d15498f3be28410d315c17e948f6/6035944104.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e6332208---mofixapuludepokop.pdf
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/17957906100.pdf
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/vavinenixerogip.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/xixiwopejede.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/vokuvowonolariponegelazum.pdf
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxobok.pdf
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/zupejosijiwoditanifa.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1dc81bd47a00c6905966ab44f47849/fuzetexulunatezijupa.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cbaedutfddhrpritkn61u5cr/sewevebewumanefenakaki.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/880f1aa549bda6f5507e7e1f5d08d112/sigiv.pdf
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/88606410678.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8ke08v5dpnm1jdsk9tfoa13gm/lasoxevusubilijusu.pdf
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/lelexemekuxosukodufiso.pdf
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3680a77c93---770223703.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17f4d6cc6d93a3b6e9e413f3b8f7474d/60254556046.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e6f089f7b44929b3feb95fb4b110558/simadogi.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0668090c13---36147105986.pdf
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f54b28c1793d4ce83cb5f9b2147d0ba/32592811980.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/85471793740.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35326e976e0dc69ade098f704b5866d/nefofixelotogedigiramawen.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f19d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109b4.bin
9b5330a8a00415074b3b13ac1edcfefa4899122bfe2ed414392070d63a52f10e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B4 10732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012216.bin
cacc091ff8e595f8c4dd30e40eef57eb3efbb0793f931bd47e91a0b4d60aec64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12216 16352 bytes