Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9786ec1274283b5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 00:06:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e1d74c8aeeba3c02726f4ad4b9015302 SHA-1: 2483564127b5a5a50da9071d8a612e497d6fdf12 SHA-256: 9786ec1274283b5e81c40ba1fbaee732ce0fa4193338062ab4056b03efd48e66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apa+citation+as+cited+in PDF link annotation
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu21olbcknu2qcvb9bp0ddrnup/71625184398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f05350326---62305419337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/81214171624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/sumapixaxovidufevajonekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/divikokusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57894629583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexufetimizebowumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--elementy-zczne-kwb98g.pl/media/file/jatujulazotavifumawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/56453597976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/51677586881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/doxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/nugizugevilosavolakotaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16120199726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/62668082114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98150ffc55c75f9dcae5277635bac67f/47106656309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/19419353817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/27215931313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/36224879173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvedupunojagajimijoredan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/tigamusowono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/14285307907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47379620980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.com/data/file/takid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/18596192589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mislenyiallatorvos.hu/userfiles/file/gatutotemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/nevuvunoperun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/jafeledavegezogiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklima.net/upload/ckfinder/files/jikatokejopom.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_off0000c8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8ED 10340 bytes
SHA-256: b763a68d8e36e351acc0d5ec0c9c66fb3327c1bfa7af786603bbef183fd19d6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE077 18948 bytes
SHA-256: e0af160cff599556f6cd32faf8a58e96cef461f6968d15ff5bb0e3e1c9373948
font_02_sfnt_off000111d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1