Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9272ef8ee20cbf2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 02:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e2ac8e5e7362febfb1868cdd3e187658 SHA-1: 881df5486ade4c63534b5aee636cee63eb203173 SHA-256: 9272ef8ee20cbf2e5cf95db4cc59e72a5e30ce87c0475f1ec13b2ee2745b675a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users into clicking them, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudizesiko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607471b35e229---87398264325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/guxuropelufamidevavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210530_135352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/vexirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f611e0727bd90011fdab806168dbc4b6/55982911309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/26386939824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab470ec57a6---3908703073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/21539053337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43252e8cd2---wejezazajibirivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/renakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9a56946c---46186291188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kozadobubujuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/12462424571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48e4635a9e---72116746665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fe104bc42---75283481044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopoxemanuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/80055354463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e1d295acff5719335aa23b075f0d33/janobatokofuguzaxexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/22215101004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi82gnb42ngfnsogd7p7dke470/63752117286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazidaporap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/xobimuroliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba58cfefa42b2f84349653a7c4c22de3/gubujuvawaxewilusinure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea3c7ac7a8397efcbf9f92f4498a9103/11429619785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16fae963d9---bovekapefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf278fd3dece37a2627132406d99c34/sajevesedojirivoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/69794726392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=chas+chandler+constantinePDF 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_off0000ef19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001072b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072B 17984 bytes
SHA-256: c6bb0b9aa6704d3d6a0c80430cc8c60bb52686cb66492d76e18d1033887f48ca
font_02_sfnt_off000135ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135EF 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 5f4e6b6d35cf2e95503cd8078b12598eace0276d92684b51cbfc4b71c8e9d7f5