Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9419d16fc36b0e57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-12 22:45:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ac08dfd859426a4f374b8c375d4a5002 SHA-1: 6e18c784b936871183d952eee91fa34425440ab6 SHA-256: 9419d16fc36b0e57dfa602eb65414ac337569ec7b8329d6ad2343e8f5a86b426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs indicate it's likely part of a phishing campaign or a distribution point for further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://penal-garazh.ru/files/kisamudabawuziker.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2e7ebfe2b0d977d9705cc9dc86bb434/funaleperoluzemimazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/gokafopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736e0872201---20273679946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecf6f72b9d---90135816035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/donasunagexoramuluzemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/1946810922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc8b647bb8---takevapolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/ginuwiwiliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tvog6a7dpv7pjea8tpj4ctue1/lomivuvekitavurole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/fererunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fthf5o2hi6056fk8fl9ni4c5nu/91886163053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1579afd03---jokopukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec32b4a352f12979250e1cad8f7f7e5/petofagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/76154422891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011b5abeb608a0f9749189fa94638050/biluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ac96aa439af498fd7a37af514ba17a/70999822825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/nopawugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/21775338721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2103e8c0c6---23891355691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntl76np8dqo0g01ompkbu1f4oo/fozidumubudababavigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/99324749919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctubfhs9es32dmc78l0956bg33/17672071103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161083c8630f52---8115215398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/loboxiwagukuvubusanezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8103d84f4fc2d2364f0e3f14b99f2ca/bowezisaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=system+of+linear+and+quadratic+equations+worksheet+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_off0000d26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26D 16376 bytes
SHA-256: fa6adc338609aed255e62e95c14f3d1239defa72c277927c4fbde5ac60f1ad8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD34 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd0c61b734407cc5967a77f5a59bb88aea44bc331eaa440ed633ff90c441083
font_02_sfnt_off00011816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11816 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1