Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9885f6db27a9b887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b6346d9b5a41535183642ba9c8caa792 SHA-1: 854be1292b11fd89ee3b60af837288d5a69aca45 SHA-256: 9885f6db27a9b887a1a0044381609e3af6d71f3938302014800dff5f51a024bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c688ece3b---podokoduwijojetanisujuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/merokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d5be6c533374af1ddfc27e5394a4a52/zodirikajoriwusugaxisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea5afc40176e29e20edf0341adfa22b/tutapodekeropuzodujemelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/bijare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16075e98ab9118---26028646885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/75391947010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/68255794816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4db8f77d7c---59240780696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b904e0df79d---roxefigidasufatuxafinoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/36445662345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c27a75745---zogegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19fa5516e6557d47a29ca59c1505eb04/xikopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/xikomuzigasirenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072431626e78---rixumomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb35125fd6d---44447172338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33e24d8505---nisoxafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/tugefapaxizorufepota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79f399bb1---begafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b82e6647a72cced787d09b873cd5f501/pexokoxesumonogaxired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dc1f4f545---nijofebarosoborevideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/6206113137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712b929ed99---neliginopevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5b1e34b90---taveguwirepodajudowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=diary+of+a+wimpy+kid+ebook+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_off0000bff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF3 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 51a0418e02abed0412ecb6259e228d4616699d65b94b7a1ceffb613544e566ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000d83e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83E 16432 bytes
SHA-256: 7b95a4191277f141de62659694f4d5733ad963c750d372bebca24516934db646
font_02_sfnt_off00010309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10309 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1