Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9453e43b8a8de2a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 35a9396ec40e0bfb954692bd3ddfc306 SHA-1: eda6a8256092707c709be6b15faa9bc82ada3a0d SHA-256: 9453e43b8a8de2a015a2d2e8f6c6f003d373931419dcde952bc4fdbd21e11261
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to exploit users through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/241b4460225a79607ab9b9807335c94e/vazakifadawumag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/vubegapemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a4f56bebb---35692545904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210524140630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/79384468351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4dcd8c62e10eb8e00aa5e1de54fd5c/70615571442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382c4c0bf0a4d8944f1087700981c979/90422981085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a055593015f---50192229227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/16609753131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0e2758a4d---faporuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2844e9e39e8b12f062bff28defa0c8ba/79544282905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40146061d652cb305d48b372c3fe7e09/67671510350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/vabujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e83e7f3856f6cd12e20847a7bdd971c/garewumasabunutazedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12f9e9b9c0---77583492337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/56485327047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/78097617139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/33649079637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/kurazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j6jioan9hlc0oc42jl57bloga/bagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l97dnqm47v26nho4aosm1u0124/74920327843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb947cbe769156a0f3c3676a395869a9/37343630509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d04f66876c---2697358160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086660159321---43107524261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+drunkedPDF 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_off0000f65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65A 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 8f1446a22c9b92448697bc30c46812452ae6d3c3edeab370b168b3f1c8d779b4
font_01_sfnt_off00012515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12515 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2C 10404 bytes
SHA-256: e0ef68967d2198ca9e9c4f6c7306146dcd1cef8ca729e1a4ac1863d6340dd535

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