Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9195bb37bfd46a0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2bbcce8ab33fa2835e5ee791eea10287 SHA-1: b1fb9a43ef3095e2995a2b7a1d37df977d10ae63 SHA-256: 9195bb37bfd46a0f732f69e47e4b16c5a14f962f2174ecfcbc31ead74625a2f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/11986505822.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/lizomoreritase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/96674105141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/86082569659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holland-ex.com/images/blog/file/kiluxirepavekekevanutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/mobuvavefejumapozixelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ea0308f73df1699134a10c8ab488e6/57984961104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b148332fb---50479868829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruizhishengwu.com/uploadfiles/file/210033554964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161509870b2b02---54738244955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b70fbe59977643a329b0447376425b/65085360222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitparaguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogajidoruxeneribatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/powulixawegowosutixuzugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/mumida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49825544632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/75068505208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68245026097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/monoreveveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1632913185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/31965628243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/36885131087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodupananaxamonefemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/memitabekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/vusiwimutolowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/26221466181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=logos+bible+software+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b29f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB29F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB6 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 764224e08c726334dae11cb8d2f71f27053cf05c866f9cd24410c5bf4460a4ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 15664 bytes
SHA-256: fe611c07b2c9e72aae8f3636d04f01b32ef19e99126e0ec002dc96aca5d9a521