Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09d9415c2f3f1339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 02:37:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 68c0b481b7e9e607e6bcd3803469d4db SHA-1: 1116de36b91d8cae185186d994dc2c0ec4b998aa SHA-256: 09d9415c2f3f13395e110336dd88957d6e2a7f0770455264e1ffe51a266e481f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML flagging strongly suggests malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=contemporary+financial+management+14th+edition+test+bank PDF link annotation
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/vatafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/29664927139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/84046473878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e1069a78b4cacfb0152eb04e36d1ba/wudimudigewepowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4f3163001---72293241317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/75457944065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708f2061130---36606312547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/kerejodesimiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad23e57f425---46648566657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cdc1b0745---manupozatowawali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/xefogerexupoloxovolavawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66e5a1ec73---77950862053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6543775760---41172158510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/xoduwodixusidazokegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongxuyen.org/upload/files/pifilasevapelivetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfcdda1185b---47678732882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263fe444ab6b14bf439f7358f3a0420f/86384274905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1395bdb4d2---83006039081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a95dd131db732a7e12bfaa7aa2bff3/58438662706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e359a71054c7aaf299a1560ad07e2d5/97624114368.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_off0000e06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06F 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 71b39c8e94d492fcaf89c6c2a44407c3cf27e1ba8d217fa9d4ccec5472a9d770
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB67 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 439f97a66978b2520e32f15ac25c2dca4844041b509c9aef699155cdbea3ad2d
font_02_sfnt_off000128ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1