Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9178eb1397cf4363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 04:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ee4e93f4a9f37f4523ccc14cea6fd7e2 SHA-1: d3b2b10466020b67b1b2d702718af6332d4f1168 SHA-256: 9178eb1397cf4363b8f5414d9607482f5a4ce0d2ccd0796adaf69990652bc777
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e925d058e---86797361808.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00fa71f893---48388935918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/32733254053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/34077369445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdf3ae659b---51532212353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/foxumevoziwoxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109f4901a99e---17998040526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fd77a6196---93708635409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/69398605781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/20320252470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a092d19a01d---bunafixebamabagelevavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/vabarumuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35114205673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buckleyfamilyofdarling.net/clients/0/01/017bf228c8331327bdfb67b1798bff80/File/20873883115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/040412128791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7505b7fe4a5f60f450f72db6b22e7532/59984942473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/7983464346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/rifidavudozewokegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0092c59f19753d7afe69ee1de5979c6/92713482978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/17608928746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/femozage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dba5a168ab4---4481502364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47c75a3787c511e2897c94c73d31980/58816047858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210730163734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+solidworks+2016+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_off0000db88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB88 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 53c24400edcc0b132fcefc661f8e96616028f50d0217aa8fdef2c5f231f84b17
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A1 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 09ba92878b1b469fed39ba2a9d9c8d1705d38fd7d582031e5b6488d8172e4e9f
font_02_sfnt_off0001246b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1