Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9858221954cfd0c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a228a19fa430982ddd8ea296c726c796 SHA-1: 7fcaf27e079cfc0515a7431f85a248d31b3acdad SHA-256: 9858221954cfd0c4e71344976d987322a464c1945f923a8b15c37f71abd71e5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is being distributed through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the malicious nature through its structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d25bfb4e759172387656a8ed978cccc/51834445061.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/68254152894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68141d716b---14226424579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vidukai3vv69jhnm8r3jqfg9t/83840794900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/sajapebapazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/7972955600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7796da59308744525ada6df4415a7fe7/jefovodevukiputegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/vijiretajanumesozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db4838985bf7daf06c47ae8c3da184a0/16051128076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7f5382ab---lenutojalerutamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e4b8d726a---68325855912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063f0093ada27d6809d82aa1a4dc33bc/vobozagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/2414848451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8934424170---fukivaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/litiwuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/87736930989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/vanawenabileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/42644667276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e330e77f1a---30212404568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe7q2pcbrq58hc86l1lm0pe64i/29088234301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ab3355be9e287d0242a291b2c2b399/dozokugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f4aaaa7a9a48ada6c356e1522555cec/25288874851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/11840285196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauspro.net/upload/files/zakozubusijuzixotewetupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=palaeolithic+age+periodPDF 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_off0000f6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFF 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 0de2f6c7289b97c1e1829213f2874d41ddf176b03dee44102cfd4c987652809a
font_02_sfnt_off000126dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DC 16772 bytes
SHA-256: c6f52d053eaa79a048cef52954b39e1e34a25592feba796be18e6a6c5577c0dc