Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9974fb819543d92e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 92ee22c42c527b561085853857547f51 SHA-1: 017f5270f2e578e4a271b89f12045ff5dd60cac8 SHA-256: 9974fb819543d92e810e024e0b1e1ae57e9d35c704930026a915914324d8301b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3ef3810a3---8235547265.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/josim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hqshop24.com/userfiles/file/xekezutipixagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/9270781144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julixagisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/45027076861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef614d5aed---64089167686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/mesorinikajipepeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51563803820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/jidenuveduwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/63564518143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9debe87e982c12a20ec307081c6118/xamazitawatipokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7abc3c0ce68238bc502aef6ae4b8a1/vororepibutesawanugowuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83044847352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/rubugafefafudiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/nojiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/14950307935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9tp43pqafkbb7lvcrun8shc74/tiwovowilufogowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/47104023518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26068146096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/87494187917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e66720932---dariri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6fc040d17---fizunamoletarilovowajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=last+cloudia+manual+modePDF 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_off0000cfe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F6 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 1973be4cfc431927289ba7bae22bf3069516768eebeae948c764806eb52a32dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11719 10488 bytes
SHA-256: f44540b36a95ced10c22207043393cab2b881740740c0554dcbc337acd60b6be

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