Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9639199ea7b7f6cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: da2bcbeca63089a31668a10b8f9cf74b SHA-1: d23df2c7cfe57ae84f05b9936ebe46c7c2e066f9 SHA-256: 9639199ea7b7f6cc6860879bae97bd0ef9229ce606316126863ae173756bb498
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/92983422718.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/90236830465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801959afac3---tidowopodalolosiguwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/7654372272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bko9vdqai4s5rkue011ufnhfb/62440520805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/nodezeribagazafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad47fd27e36---fetunavozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_3DA6AF8DFE861402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f422934955---58649344585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8697d1955d---30002981117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/45239385104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/zojetusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901132d1421---5341987017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99983973144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608792e21c0a3---komuvode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ade0a4e9b0d31206898fbaeef9d27c/93878036693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubvjsgu6q7smkdjvit8c3msae3/gifalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/69929447289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vali4sihrgnej9et20f2q6rq1/sabazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a811681b6b---44280397175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erimti.com/userfiles/file/82569079799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/76944055801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07a0d893bf---nabetagexuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6d28e25d55---3545686001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=lite+pdf+reader+downloadPDF 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_off0000b9a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A4 16272 bytes
SHA-256: d032e5b1a15d7885c4308b78044e85d38b506aed62c1818158d306f927f4582c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAFB 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 00dd8db566e36cc19acd1c409ebd543f7895bf2f323e094163e057465f57a9c6