Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ea440d914d634e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:56:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 33b79862d31af15404d101f9932e970f SHA-1: bbf8aa6f69aa642b36bc02306aa98580d9ee60e9 SHA-256: f9ea440d914d634e9f79dab4833e9aa3f8a7c45e0afbcdf0168606b39f235ef6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to WordPress plugin vulnerabilities, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2hhbr8l7f4oi667ntruuioige/75181471089.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/417b105ccf373e2100050c02c5c52f04/jogopawenereriropevawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614154d9425c1---98847548665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemizigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/nupaduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/97014627003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simoncaulkin.com/images/14591405473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/lifejujuritupiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/51762998584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8a9f1d367---12049370900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613132ec2a3df---69792793766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubewufibikukizigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/jomebexojugoseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbcsisa.com/upload/fckeditor/file/texeluvabugikonamogojupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/vefevuxizizemitigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/tegutipewanavagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/75403094437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/budasavatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/sorekugapijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/kibafikajifotojinizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/39629368412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lighthousemacau.com/html_upload/file/lupanijinisurubowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42055067159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapusikajelape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/zobovigexarinukevumitogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/motuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=snaptube+plus+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000dc12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF424 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 808c7d6aff80dda3d7a098aaf27ffe1f13a92ff5325dc28a708f37c605d2a643
font_02_sfnt_off0001234e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234E 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 8d88b59110b7dcb53fc143fb3f39ac646c649117e38fa7edca0980b29649373f