Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9493408651c7615f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:35:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 79c92b24aaa60df43429e88e371e4e60 SHA-1: 23426393febb7072182697d8b1c8b9b31bdac90b SHA-256: 9493408651c7615fa69c7263757a44793105bb9ae8a55d485b7a019f655b9e1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by impersonating a legitimate service.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2e7f8abcfab24143f1adf3e09d47ad/pafomifinufowetaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k8v76tjiudh87q1m8e1kqlgi8/ruladubuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/964c26432b72c7b160b8e108bed3648e/62029929952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetileluguwopijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3f717d9927066b309696b3e8c20aa1/84084941469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210510192344_804939778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105482e1281a---56342697175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210825100214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4d4ce9d60---29944414071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/debasebejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/99773568660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/novifowevixazuxonivisozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a12215fcb---22740210563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/6129015835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/dezikibixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/78159404461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99332176858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/38288877403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/tilagofururutusarunefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gph6i4sq369kpi3ophdrfe573/vijuwaganixopofibosarosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/30783103909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/65877433497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ca7ed89ba330cb3ea53e2f9768dbbf/95101346400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/99296403001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+fill+%26+sign+easy+pdf+form+fillerPDF 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_off0000bf09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF09 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 059ff4a22f846d00497e37d6bdef7be72abf10dc5c24147d5e6de8b898e5336e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CF 9836 bytes
SHA-256: 4047d3e8f436d7884ad216ccb5a1ba1b6f29028bdd3902a870075699a9df254c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1