Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9400c1ba28c625a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 20:41:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6e80fd3d34ade8d6e9ba4ade02500ba6 SHA-1: e07a64b3d39ad07f98bfe7205d1ddf491d0ddeea SHA-256: 9400c1ba28c625a6f6a76235a86e6a0ef7bbeffc9f95fc6d138c02f159c2a387
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+elements+of+thought PDF link annotation
    • https://anakaygame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/5887146331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/legor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/35457195782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210610050808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43bd8716ff---62984860325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b46c7be5f---95317115853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/32970920163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c896cecf66---fodidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godswaynehemiahmbc.com/clients/878002/File/98491119538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f8024f82b---64172907547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/66962751605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/68567688307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/41181704731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kphg1kq6tu2o1eegk47f98ecq6/welopukiwidaloginape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f685e6714b---lupuwowavojabuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/67214026265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f877db80668e044ba174eae07aacc21b/dufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341a84d3c37fde715fff070d68236efa/kejekaxepemiwikotujejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e6a583d0356c9da34f5a2faab49c3e/mimekiwazikedevaguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/1801663636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6b78de90fb2cdc3d57c6102e386a38d/11467493996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/dafuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82f83c30ae---18792649061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutricion-intravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a734716c3baa7794b71291de93bf47/tovojomarimikifopowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63462e9bd8744fec6c2ce01b1c6360ed/85301177033.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_off0000e7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CF 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 0f408567d18be614d6a00892a0aee675f5913b53479ebe4c10e3da2b1499a991
font_01_sfnt_off0001121c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 88bedf0af12a182d802ff863191fe9355e2b04d7160f8127ac846f0f63e50cf3
font_02_sfnt_off00012af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1