Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ce644120e30b79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e7204f9637363442ef82b9fa49e7e477 SHA-1: 4aac11c89c3743e91a8a8ceac2f1473d3b49659a SHA-256: f9ce644120e30b7902385460f4d87eddd2143f8f9563e49ede1a36ff490f27ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress upload directories and potentially malicious IP addresses. The presence of numerous links to disposable hosting and UTM parameters suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059a7f46fbc55c2d415d12c2d42d1251/4258137497.pdf
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/jedajafuleku.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94be526aafa0ae9524f96297fd25fea2/regupizadaje.pdf
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607100ede0f9e---33827128153.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23c2b59fe093188a1f52de9be2c4b793/nupizanonegulinapaxatizob.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd87fc16df7---90095474441.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ad0353b26---wodesevavowonin.pdf
    • http://smartarts.bg/userfiles/file/jatuwesesijedovedejuzupuv.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076aba824617---20878180661.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d646466b4---xerezen.pdf
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/wazizes.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af7e6cefdaac329be547ce7798d9829/49183517815.pdf
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210515080830_lgkj6d.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f462d95b57b4a5817b0db7c3ccedfaf3/13726930920.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ac3026d4c---62728269339.pdf
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/22175267178.pdf
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/jinujutigabusuxigatuvo.pdf
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77860493565.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d63765724ea33c38e09f1bbdbbabdb/97062973527.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab64d15e9e4---32381594810.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608300458d4ae---8844422561.pdf
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sigebavivowegefobebute.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea54b246a6---tunirexes.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073337ef21e3---74764804120.pdf
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/6979328051.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=story+with+elements+of+short+story
    • 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_off0000f9dd.bin
4569d2cfbff9032c22cbb2510b0637b069cc23dffcc9470b84e1802016c5ade6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DD 10592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111dd.bin
f7c3fe8707f9b56e56d6a111fa3a1b87ac3c121dd417d53f07e1885dbd461364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DD 17296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e8e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8E 16792 bytes