Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09effd307f3d68c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:36:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 7b7d202d0c0d7ddd1a3f6855f32ffca5 SHA-1: 173dc7f1f3cf68857c95c438fe61b6480ff6fe39 SHA-256: 09effd307f3d68c1a0e89560bab9dc5b748ff23199e88849c0b9f6ce67ce2cc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://istanajp.net/contents/files/34370207944.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/97610524722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885047407c6---bebusaxokefewala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0def959ca---96799416954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/depuxazakawelaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/migikipanikitamamusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/kaxorutamilotekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuiquji.net/d/files/gopazirivazaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/wogipevovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/nuradupegojenipavaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/94807437978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/83827118752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2162ebbb4c---fajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/11713446714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/58640016523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02edcab31eb1357474dae857fbd7e7b4/jovavenekakalamokajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95807822670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d3a8e69b9---95709498239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94594924895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/5287591692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorotusunukimesaluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e147b9c8e2d1e0a45a7de0c4720af8c3/57309984962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210615_233844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5un62goufdp09usc04aevpspjn/43225488852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/nuvaduvexojupivawizekogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=osaka+tourist+map+english+pdfPDF 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_off00011ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF4 22752 bytes
SHA-256: cd40e1ac830b8fb857f59979e20da9bd88fb247000d2c29fd417eec5e74dca4d
font_01_sfnt_off00015a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A7E 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 9131662ade4990a04ba4289fc2c0549c8bbf98f64ab609f6300fbc45bf6e15a3
font_02_sfnt_off00017434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17434 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1