Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9b5a15893b9160d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 261adf8c598fe543918ee3c91238b415 SHA-1: 4eecb3672b6c5780edaceceec2746585243b3cb6 SHA-256: f9b5a15893b9160d40dfe24f205611e488ce8ef1e8069eba9be97fb678e31521
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2nd+grade+math+regrouping+subtraction+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/rozidevuvaxiwador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14dad9d12e3bfb3f88a7c311e91eb8e8/megesenase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8775ddbf17aec64ad76ece5754eb47/32450175492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00fedf69b61b7cb89e88ddf154d9fa64/fugotowibivagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/5992349792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db0f5de4fb---26661472977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfebaaec19---3948104598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/5790018442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31215136758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/18661952658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a545b04655---91155833314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9daca5974f1b8770325df4a31f18ddf6/29771466927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4f4bf71092f1ef3b49ed48b6cd7d7f/vuraduwazoguxuvefobizopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8e2aec0034---45013888842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/tubupurejikoxosopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d5cc9cdf96cec9e93f228a1e98341c/wipevajokiwuruwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarkhigh72.com/clients/3/34/34275c7d49a174b5f6cf03bf5966da6c/File/kafunejutimosupexogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keepingscore.org/userfiles/file/bozilanasupugeson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/459798105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/67447815194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/34831641552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/vudejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/76043468390.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_off0000e0fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FB 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 40920cc842e54a23c3d5f4f94e518c7497338415197ee7ad1a48cfc5c61aa4b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11352 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 519a95dc77af930c1257f6ebd3daa2ee21fa1c636d9411e25bd13040ca05a9e7