Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09bb486a24d53a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 3fe983c5d0e1df67f7ab09e3da385d19 SHA-1: 1ec6eceba5b122828fb3263a23f3eaad3648cb4f SHA-256: 09bb486a24d53a5f8787449801bacd9dbf6e46b458e1d17e39b78a4051a3c80d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a critical ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users through a chain of links, likely to a phishing page or a malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://luminex.pl/upload/file/73628017217.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f921fe6e80bda18d9338a030bc9864e/87420007680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/vuxomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g3hq43602mvq1aj7o8gcn2bhq/18525210966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lurugeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.org/clients/83264/File/nikoxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaishachuukobuhin.com/js/upload/files/46775069485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/15401870659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe10c2dac4efc24510992666041b6d1/zabilumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711c1163a99---kufopezetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/wuraduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/gufajijipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwarukuserar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///42897192531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/93264140671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/17153087965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kclr8lasqf2nukhudub3p88ff1/gumuretupazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7b6e3625c41750f5871085c52694fb/36995682493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3dbde4eee1bee8e3fd326c3156e794/920937599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39a0304dc0a65ff77ead649cd69639e/26142104382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampsonancestry.com/clients/d/d9/d9bd9208c4e45de01aa31840e3a8c66b/File/tadetasawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50965848668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej84re9hg8rrdlp1riffnerfe1/12668084874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1804c6e92---84341190925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/91698051670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=jesse+anderson+duel+linksPDF 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12714 17436 bytes
SHA-256: f1ecba7d8563cb93605e174c79d5cfd4c072af60c2c04dd78316eb3bc6adaf22
font_02_sfnt_off000154ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154AB 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 0348f38df98d8ec7e1423f115a61926ec0c3bf29a1c091a99766bec054fde9e9
font_03_sfnt_off00016bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BFE 2724 bytes
SHA-256: cf0cc26b39c71a572747a25c9b8e1ea1fa5858af6ea5b35284b57bf43d83e4f3