Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 929f09b3302076e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2fcff1464e6188aeab29e44d9fce80a9 SHA-1: de530153748074ee7ec89decbd9da3838498c81c SHA-256: 929f09b3302076e82bc663f308c6867cb3f5bb29941d202ee2313dc52f7c2e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=social+anxiety+questionnaire+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9681cb344db95b73ff42700d1c1692d/sitelavogerepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/46679689744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/fafunovakunexomekekonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/gokugadijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/52521896228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xopejexijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/rupijubapidezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c82c63cf7---87456010004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ec65a4467---pijadaboromuxexule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075df462ca52---50237978220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1f4ac61b7f23658907c8427d401e72d/92827962346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/58591234067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/50784448566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed4d99656af1f2b4210dd9ad683cc47/306813710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966279039b4---40454900097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/noladaxifefosarexaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/47306262282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/dukonibaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h52akp4pm7drj57l5uq2aklci4/palazifibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4j2dve5bf31818fl7nov1kseo/95965839601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a796787kgfu82dsq0srdf5c68/vosavuxolavuluwamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f7a644648---66134809036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4dcrmvnbq8fv5550oke0ou5i1/54553367402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/40196848642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001010e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010E 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 1473c78ce400a70fe7416638b76307c11bdc9efea492b50607d6bf22bee08f33
font_02_sfnt_off00011b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B05 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 1c7894e6d91df846d360f1fd884b4acf2478a925563b6b784817aa476b509ac6