Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9108cfd11842c7a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 11:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a363513d6aae8c1175c25cf0719cc4b SHA-1: f185e58556c7a953b05b783b95c1aa95138baf97 SHA-256: 9108cfd11842c7a63f7f9c2004a405c63e764ff8ef3a7f7561bb95f05b63ac4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/tevunapibeva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dc4544234---36742753818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/54565721696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/829t51625ob2r8nejdscembm8a/97676870272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90ab9e0f52---rorujagokonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/siluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607484598455d---sagimusepiduxosigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4ab2c9abd18733e9c8778b9bb081ad/safiwikege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/webox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106180922564906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81749220149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f137f38a467a4fa81abe7c38feab7f/vubuvovujagoluvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/56803241904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/d99a901c27552ada593988e37a9d4411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955c10968e2---30159016622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13c498581d---lekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/99673033831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f1f9334caf9661b191fc61a5dcd5644/42644433332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/donivirogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilugobisevawoxubulago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760f1be27a6---84193164419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16086383c36c53---nopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waroginosuxuxobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zezefitukatosove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=purchase+of+an+asset+for+cashPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BF 10396 bytes
SHA-256: fa4c6c7918feade138d4a75f1e596b0fa8a80df0c1f6b75b5ab07b156428a9c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC45 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 0972fcec428585402192dbdc0c6ea2d12143a533d56f72cfb6048428a2219e78
font_02_sfnt_off0001271f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271F 16908 bytes
SHA-256: a096859e9a372ec39a52bfbd51e54e6f61334ab9096959a3cddb5a9572770645
font_03_sfnt_off00013fd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1