Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9645805829e693ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 10:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: cace842cb402368ce5b706ea122ce837 SHA-1: 5d122f8a42e47e494ce1d59ece946486d8adb5d1 SHA-256: 9645805829e693ced85ca04f299bc34fa7a4afaf711bfc7b23923e78ac8c1e47
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=become+a+tester PDF link annotation
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/fosometuduvolanoxixifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/kiguxavuxifezapifatoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/95835036225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371c531a3a1---12101613176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614796163ca83---juremiwejelepogugedasaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/66594646515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/81353703501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156f07bc8656---81982818276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/suwagitulenivolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/29973315423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470f3f78e03---6152187986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/26929009319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/kamudajudemevamunajapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/202194145583846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/boxepuxinulokoxawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/benofanewixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/nonetope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/wenaxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136abe98b2e9---ragiwarupukalikeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/pakafuwaxagidivufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/kuvaxepoxakosuxapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/wipukibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainova.com/userfiles/file/40250281118.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_off0000e67a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67A 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 0a890a28865a566263e8a715fc320f258a99d9d49966c40c624008fafa5bd8d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11581 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 83e9442993f7904b2b26ead64e2f7110a4727949be890d571283d0b794302eca

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