Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9452b8899981a0aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 18:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7cf60a2fc9bafed7ba2479f2e32e684f SHA-1: 26ad3743c27eb2c5050016b6a9f9556a9e11e9c1 SHA-256: 9452b8899981a0aa57743de4cf95b5e7971f6c293cd1783e9a181024e013a009
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, reinforces the malicious intent.

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 http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1632370104.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/tokirogagenajibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/jafasumopori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/fowinade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upaspor.com/resimler/files/vipusiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/zefajanuluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143970cc89e3---35817469733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b537516972d9fd3a1964605c949a197/53599300166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euffobrf4ape0htfuj9nchqje5/ruxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/90365430994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e01cc14d02---pixeguterumumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/saxumafubafowowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/40907524319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905142359182407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitokubapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/99753386583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/8858623480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/84391226378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/98240442999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/74596959430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5371vkqv4ecqb2ev3jfc4tk7ik/13953978835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0eaae516731403af0ebabad382809d/kavebelodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/vitikolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/68866165220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+mobile+cast+to+tvPDF 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_off0000b3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3D7 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 92725b0eaba1c626de47ba9daba3dd445c61400a82cfcfe2d451e85b3fd9a923
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF9 15208 bytes
SHA-256: afb0ab98b412d1c02dc1c41cdd058af426d449039202124f626f340f511f5c9d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF227 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1