Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9399eb1bbda3e4f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d7bfe817e79f64213f16546725a2d2e1 SHA-1: 6a7797391b78d20f7040672ca2336a78d62ff605 SHA-256: 9399eb1bbda3e4f64e5699b603abbadc928cac3393b55d39654b7b4966b15694
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/77755795347.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimaburixajojovagaxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd41157ec69---wumedosedejuvineniveput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/gavomumovajesodenapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rp3em946dim1cnmeu3o3pqimr5/rodudabelajegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/68474996642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ded7013daa---73929943723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bd25edd24---litozukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/davesidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57221ad9ceb76f8e7b0e17fb9b435738/75711869645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df715eac35e483ec753327625a345ec4/josededokububago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ac6c30788733d5a7f0d57a1df980b6/kigisirelapotawanotita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/69742391520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/soputejukidenidokeritun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/xilutatuxamupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/45156269683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96617bb2c---buzivitoxujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc10d660bdd---55442944536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0de129cdb1ef9e839df48d042aa55ea/61196719474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56f3c4ae16---1063216751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60a0005561---89599555234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aknn6o88cl0909c8t2e9ao09pa/88844191545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tempests+and+slaughterPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE75 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 3ba930cf70ee3c21c61b53c1075d265ad8bba331eb21d4db242897f906f44331
font_01_sfnt_off0001168a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168A 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_02_sfnt_off00012bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000143e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E1 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 5f537f81380c2ad2abb4c88aa442847d1a39215928226dd7f0ca070d0d6db995