Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9228adef2b620de7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba53cd65dff45bb36bc124480362d3e6 SHA-1: eafb172e0fe2a1b81fb57b6d3f2101de2b1fb7f3 SHA-256: 9228adef2b620de7877322e817bd2f7f5a37be12f5118db31a72c06a86456249
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a downloader for further stages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sociology+and+political+science+similarities
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b861065e76c8e54aa8f7912dd0091da2/7775930849.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2qhlfqshgk21kage38sfp7ajb/dojigarenaguzoxedefov.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1nkpsdtbk2t24q87qn635vj00/49053957361.pdf
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/42711744188.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05893e8ad0---34434051653.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv0tg2tpu3p74tvjlm9m0kcgo7/laxupunegexolemopefisokin.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0420987812bcf66e06ece41f8cd04f6f/nupofusoxuxowumukol.pdf
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d47e0d12104b88425f721d5e473732e/nobexoxunosafitajefij.pdf
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d33c3ddd07a79331d737b1650a30cd7/matopirinizinu.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f55dcac02f---71966983172.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae682c4b2f---wujuw.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2b9328c7b1---5151771936.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb594cfdc5---kopixunubulegaja.pdf
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/vafoxoxorese.pdf
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/3426437506.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c739fb913b---pizofiti.pdf
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1b5ea88d59d54d49fe5f8f680a8fc8/sexisuxinaporij.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986c357c704---fikafexupowiwudif.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad75e26ac25---34065013741.pdf
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/samimeribaperutogigur.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011698.bin
a0c00da7e6856d7f688283021892bb3ac678848eef7c481805be74fe0d9b7d1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11698 11048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013019.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13019 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001482b.bin
78b584d0d31cbdb3a8522ebdc7205d0dfa08b2ddc3b2795097bd9eb28173f4b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1482B 16732 bytes