Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9366276ec129c38f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:36:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1c047b3171cd969c81c79c80e36e3a0f SHA-1: 281f3ad04c6e1249dbd4c5edb7b5ddf48a894ea6 SHA-256: 9366276ec129c38fef4519b7f2ce4f1fc80409f8c94bc10ee0ef935a1eccbe09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d16c0365---xetunikikodugewozimokaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/joxavedabudolukofoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baacb0a57f8a6f18cc932d30be5115c6/sovego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i23vltsp37v7djjnpav4h6hu34/14718627705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongduong.net/Images_upload/files/65893881154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/38953829454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607568d7b8571---puwenuvekomiwumubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/76162163160d2152be30e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekexogoguliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/raredagiziwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/gebufovonuragag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/tumewogibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7989bf5ee4c605a8bdab997d33ca14d0/rowajipudisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/pazolasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/17380322921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8302b29da---fujapedukigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/00d06769883ad3d6eff55303e5e818cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc00a35932a14cff5dce624d542c674/47831579881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/82599364142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/282308435078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349a555f554---gamijipidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e821910568393313e23965463abc21/98694876954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d31dc62ccd80da139b6968b296b3fca/12929951958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abe11becbd---48200802193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=volumen+definicion+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_off0000d6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B8 17184 bytes
SHA-256: b43b52f893f4545ad731a6ba706620bfb703c4b17d534fe1f186810ec2db6534
font_01_sfnt_off00010273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10273 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8A 10324 bytes
SHA-256: f1929da59ef2b33ed61365ec6b312a6edc9aabcfb1212e7daeddaee5186eb334