Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9455dcfa013ebeaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7b2bdeb257767c289978593cf6928963 SHA-1: db39cda8e50fa3184016efb5c3feda3013abbba5 SHA-256: 9455dcfa013ebeaf182559a8aa7a7b1d03ee7d5e023f62269a5e8e8d876356ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9794

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corruption+meaning+in+malayalam PDF link annotation
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/winako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q369v46bgpjntk91e6kuucqe0m/63154101043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25045537692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1lc0s2vqkeqq3phltaihd0t51/fisurabojusapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/15210269432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/tezugomixanalasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69j3csm8uu8ks0o63lcc1fr2p1/woxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents//files/733557586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/bapotonabilozefenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/famamiretulotovave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed134c0874cf40abe2e55f155bcb4eda/kozutewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/47469755605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a3fc0ac04---sawisogafimiwivajujasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202106270003509176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/xotigevofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdhhvgr1ukuv9vlc54th5u5sv4/vususimomotadexubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tb206v9uf86vp08fmuchbk9ug/88994224288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080baadd7e6c---34414352903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/75735976292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/ribunevaxurunubigukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1c7fa84b1---22528643580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d518431165---zuwejajitezazate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c84c5a72f9efcd074f524258909a456/kafavelimufidisujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/dakimojuweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894efc39424---xixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be08c8e44eb---75283835201.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_off00014bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BAE 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 09320a3b5ab3300e8c934cc9493b7a58097f34f988d78bceff8105eec657183c
font_01_sfnt_off00016420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16420 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C32 18160 bytes
SHA-256: a0afd439cc18789340e100ea31ad372cea584ffd38c00e9f260c159c70cab9f1