Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9032851f9c79c399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 14:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9f990d57c13833030aa7be730ad7210d SHA-1: 0dc5847b9a6b28d471ca7728e87d8bc10411c4ed SHA-256: 9032851f9c79c399b1d14307925023e9fae8ff25798e775394bd0f7ac396417e
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of containing harmful content. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading an encrypted payload, likely to evade security scans. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and link farms, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/tajutul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/nisukujijoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9562afbb1---vuvuxadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4940dabf9fb701c9d390b1dcd447615/77232626973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b031d2e08a5---48166832627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9raqhg2n98oqov9k58u4tlk217/39367791944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/mumomuwubivelugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/99746307188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/mutuxixadapazusexobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/24796624457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/bulebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d563d9918957b35052f74502f8175b6e/46005178095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf476503365881fb1dc3a9a961d69b89/36651233594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/baxavesajaxikaxefosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160725b5d0fb51---42966109580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hqj3p8lricipjfdojcbtmp1vs/jijugamotazorovazuferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/87889838959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/760f6814134d2dc7ae286375de6e803a/4880130033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7d0a4cd5c11ca53d764b429edba60c9/kazeketeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de47a95d19216eed9eae90c05e8edfaa/romabolijunumilige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1a844312b7d6a7c430f6e0cb185b4d/26029265888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d3d734261---87863712634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd900a490a2---tamimiloruvuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=motion+3+after+effects+pluginPDF 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_off000104f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F8 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 116da0d52f4647f17ac4b021828f6d7dcde8fe08896645b737e68697a92b6e11
font_01_sfnt_off00011e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E74 17680 bytes
SHA-256: a968c792cc7ceefd34ac2ed2a9650a587f16f8eec83b83fa92dee12b3b575de2
font_02_sfnt_off00014cd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1