Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9434e3c7fe5446f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 201f10fec19e9fae81ce9ef261414dcf SHA-1: b9d584d864582e3a6b5fe9d1124db1c9f295bf5e SHA-256: 9434e3c7fe5446f2d97a22b22c04a08a6d0b4cdf8c2d5face456758af81043e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and link farm structure point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by directing them to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=length+of+plane+curve+calculator PDF link annotation
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/jokonawanomesiwamafosifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/71910520548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27d810971254b0ea285e3bc278ba1ee1/lagewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/90803155394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micdelhi.in/userfiles/file/kaxiwupukojelidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1dad0cbb2---momibuvererinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/1466586504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/zomajekegojakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613852932ca6f---31285608336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/52552543713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/60837374279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa3df93d36b545efb616f03444a3e4f/kaferirarovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/xafawuzusexipofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/gaworare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/bujuperadenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/gabetetepakijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/suvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/9683455398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31379391593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380e316cfd8---94159934663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/binab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/92391008833.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_off00011454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11454 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 4cbdb1447f12deb8ffb40d90472872354318ec0670ba48531606339af663bfde
font_01_sfnt_off00012c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C95 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 41c0d79533f56404c40bdfda3b39e72fe6f52d1e74026950e2a54155d0ab2418
font_02_sfnt_off00015ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1