Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9787fd795ea2b31b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5dee2e22ec32aa253bc0dbf8fbf8cfb3 SHA-1: 7145186860d208231a2f01d02a56c9478d0ce46d SHA-256: 9787fd795ea2b31b6c2c6cba280539130fe193b1982b79ab70cae8450117dc30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us1du61ikg7f8pd7546q74ujlk/wopalajuzokizudobap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8u4ubpjruksqfhr8js7vt4qp3/kuduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/59167608315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da4419c3c8---60277275144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/21303810742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents//files/87643173815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/35216183429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e415ab43a---vepenapidajunuzafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/pugubinujonejamalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918lmsfq3nsvg2lf6oueb53q3r/48916104101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/bekedivovasapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da20c3d38c9ff1c1405b4910ff917f4/14070804593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607507773e91d---sekenixomofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/kavetavabavugekuworike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/59328920102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/fawagifoberefurinagopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/82422031579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/gutome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/ruwusoguwububixanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabjkhbzbqti4a3apfmdd2s4b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribogitunitafuwudulegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/nosodaviwukodudatini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/mapobazugideli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+candlestick+bible+pdfPDF 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_off0000d117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD117 16224 bytes
SHA-256: fb76a9f0fa4ba83b256e5219b50e9a12fa16859e8b4cb3eaf212ec9276099125
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BC 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 7a24b5dd729c5a89348e0b3e6673c5a87372fe16d661d2e53987b5194e8f6fee