Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9743fbdb4724be95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 90fc7ba4bd69e417f4b657b7b06c28fc SHA-1: 70b5a3318af7bd63ae8157ac464459a5c84a68ac SHA-256: 9743fbdb4724be956021176f70c0f955fefab63567a6037570caf47da3ca0388
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm, combined with the compromised CMS upload links, points towards an effort to host malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=osseous+contusion+knee PDF link annotation
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/51868831309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1olp4ago90vp0cmgh3b5faqv13/begenikawupopulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3f795fe8db4ac33db6f7299f753c62/wiwutapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me6j77fao50e58oa7hmki2ek06/3688715599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd933bd156---84123200209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/21758463782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609576c2bbb93---fubugilivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-lannion.fr/userfiles/file/42073154207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/79576834231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e000dc985c---resijikaxabumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ce7db3926---kabokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b32b99a4c94042c5e23b5469e2437d3a/23066916897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/99047334283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rf1780kbtg1ng2uhqo7lsfu8v8/sovajupefaxomevure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33992403938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/39048920964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/17613324412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/28228191137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/dukewemevomaxizimujozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/82183363239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/kiwojominobabakojosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/gagidovakabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/setowawuguwakovava.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_off0000c2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B6 10132 bytes
SHA-256: be485784de5f38883515a448419b714b44bcf18d2cb62f4530d4747c6321fac6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d98d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19F 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 1b51dff94155da22fe3466746581fa0df907f911a016c171d85d6636b2b80137