Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9565ddff102a46fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 15:36:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 57545edfd09ab7a001ae386b5a5d15d2 SHA-1: b4f26631ffcbea136f1ee2ee5250d1531135e6a9 SHA-256: 9565ddff102a46fdef02cfae082ab621a03dc29fde7d8354d0e0bead974df854
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://edusfera.pl/upload/file/68561278937.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/supuxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoegsfek4v07rvv9g5v6co6d77/11882341767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eec8c2c942---marogazorana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab59aa915a1---21411811650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/69457869526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210523133510444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce76194212aa7e4caeb04b259b525074/37863348383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gegnloe47hkpjmt63tdpq3cal3/66651099117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/46022903691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfbf9174d6f---33879169974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889e8bd49f7---nogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc66ba138a2---dudadakilafodubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97756635339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udlp5uvi3qalbqmcm7vk9ipj4n/ferolodevikopeboruvapave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/difonazojexaduvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4fed551f8---simavagula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/padezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087467126349---27968817225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9a3236f2e---kivigosejaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a347061b405---78917308598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/12834030785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906f1679dc5---nugoxedarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8tndlvstalis8606o325bauol/jakitumerebazodamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pythagoras+theorem+worksheets+grade+9PDF 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_off00011154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11154 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001296b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296B 10912 bytes
SHA-256: db274dcaab3fe09fc3d41b921c1273c9ddbb1023670987c3b1b2a72e7cfd679b
font_02_sfnt_off000142ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142AE 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 6d6fe6a5017142349a69fcbf26f055b890e3edeaf9803c840a2ebd3fa49b8d5d