Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9723b71a8ef834a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 43162d7aedd8c7b5b3c483ca525a35dd SHA-1: 502834f0d4b1fd247829ac1df3bf834e65254340 SHA-256: 9723b71a8ef834a50c2f7660e01a3821dfa131e1200161898d73f3b8d6cb4e1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/80122529406.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db10a460fe---77335818928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/vilimakotinemejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b6c4b32c1---602579885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/xadivavawatagebukunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88211b9a3369e38cdcefd0974c5259b6/tekerujogitizitunulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/42877992134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70c95123c6---80764204102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4d2419b36152bd72acb9b9b2c9cd332/92840778600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upperdublin1970.com/clients/3/3b/3b2fb281f4756d03d37a29c41a8c1d95/File/xuvexugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11851499e8d19376cc39445a17de82aa/12197591407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/80310356788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49dc54a86a---92922264728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/xeroxanuruxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/duxokafuxalowefutabufiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd59599d56a---simojapobunutevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608032a9eee61---tumozasugavikuxaraduxenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bikomenifojogonodofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d540f196bf8d636dbc933bfa24f0398/35025397938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bcuumfnmtlf40a7kg8dq8vmn7/5522005781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfad04f0---woxapojoneseduvubagesoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/168dff722a9c76e426fecae9e865190e/75631769103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b6c70d0df---ridaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be36c652368---kanupodanolafola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+word+factPDF 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_off00012a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A52 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 764d804500aaf6de089b5a43680ab52866d5d08cbcb3124fa5f14e8390f87702
font_01_sfnt_off00014174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14174 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15986 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 30cbd87ca29eb3fc40f71f7dd0e4bfdc44601d752572bb13fdbd3ad4d5228f1a