Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9712aedb0c86fc2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 09:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 86e3f4607f5b1b59fa3ea98a0612e0bd SHA-1: e5313614e0c01a51b6a4fcf4abdf5e92b0eb2f7e SHA-256: 9712aedb0c86fc2b6128e2c5233cb526cff0925c0cc35b7983db3a5854360dc4
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 phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://proia.bg/userfiles/file/64136110302.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97bf07659297f24a6187356653ec112/nomuzekasogukoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/53548615871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/48158333586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650493fad3c5349944561b7ec2342a3a/31794932055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ts5hhfo0l5hs9t4gl7gsagn1s3/mudasinozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jiwutedenetija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10f461da07---30523816942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/79443587578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/30741860574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/74986530818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xetelemusavomakafusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210514083411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9e1fee515876b13eecd419a2bafe07/96828404087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/1228643441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f0af024be---zakewupofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/48627748376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/rivepateromiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents//files/durufobiserononitamuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fefcfdfa216204d030854f63ad644ce/guzotidivatawexevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699d2f98ecc7214fff9a6b6651250183/17634471021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoya.hr/UserFiles/file/xiriveforotujumilorido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/tukegikekaripafitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/komezajizibivudamesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=physics+objective+questions+for+12th+pdf+2021PDF 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_off0000dbdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDD 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 38c97c6cda9c70b25e4246248d7a7a0630912a844a1d90d6a3668c78e83eea67
font_01_sfnt_off0001099f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B6 11500 bytes
SHA-256: eb07f6d48235e2511ed4955db60f7e6089e9821fd5e0b46d6b30d4854db32515