Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09decbc46f0b8c38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c26f95483f9e566e75755e1863432551 SHA-1: e1c68e772acc721a445a7956af4c7799cfe18623 SHA-256: 09decbc46f0b8c38a3daa2910d62c6e684dfc0b4004fcd54c1be445effaa1c71
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=questions+that+answerable+by+yes+or+no PDF link annotation
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c1c618a2e5190dc5042055c3da64ef/46700354328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202108162328296508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85130823501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210704183715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4d46c43394be294fecc5bd0c7fd314/77706864949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.micd.edu.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40236654665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/34272154708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yulintimber.cn/d/files/95265769515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/sapurivodidimobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c154dbe0a41---giriliboguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ttcbfkh5uhl2g1ub7f9v59l3/2347175266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14a4ab2b2c---xumuwobokubogevegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/13413690881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/73481646672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/zovopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/welovupebizegepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41535543805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7e0439d7c---togeseriwinezurigopunopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857b370b7dc---watedoxewubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07e9974909---3272218713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/fativusarozexitufepazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/63649935781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/muripikolid.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_off0000eb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8E 10704 bytes
SHA-256: c80a2bfa114a5e472c96c4a9304094dbc408dbf51272e6d79950ea33c2321e28
font_01_sfnt_off0001043e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043E 17872 bytes
SHA-256: ffa9ada062ce64f873a04fb3bd0da7d857e9836c821eb15445db0f8541a88752
font_02_sfnt_off000132ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1