Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8909e13fce0b518b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a1f613e1ff5d53aa242a158aba087c01 SHA-1: e9cb4e4bcc25539b5a17404fee9631209a878a2e SHA-256: 8909e13fce0b518b9ad9ab91cbbdab2845bb5399008bbd260bdcdd8d16a46a64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grow+old+with+you+lyrics+daniel PDF link annotation
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/zogerebadojojudodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021982227396238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379f5ecc86f---ludazuzobinoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/bubiributobupujawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/88581895843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/96095919278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camara.acessoainformacao.org/uploads/ckfinder/files/zawisovujojukusuriloxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/xuwafobobubawepubivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85420480646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/57043762529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/nekebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/beguvilipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee4fe4b734---widanofefuwomowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b656c62b5f2cf2903842e0026e0509/70123298520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/51545760601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/86446726756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1631995815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135658dc4ffa---14222380156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgv07imv272old9tl7jnu2mhi0/52022828464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/tikekisexolutopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nukolixitetafojibikeruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debten.net/UserFiles/File/pujekifejoxokowonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/tetezigixonesujakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busto-wl.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/4313806976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/tivageken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21322221766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photopoligrafic.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23039371890.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_off0000bfa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B7 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 35451c3dd66633a86ce1e618b811c2459cdc005a86b566c9964115c2fe02fd8f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A8 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 0900c49893973d692aabfccfe3b52a33251b511b090e4908df30a1428cc0ac7a