Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a08b91035376d60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 73d3ef23f64f51b4df4a2a03bf726710 SHA-1: 3f6326d95b53d46fd5536e60f000049e5b3230ad SHA-256: 9a08b91035376d6041e93e0e0c17a532feb325cdfd6ab42a9870460edcefc29f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8ad7c2b60---67505371660.pdf
    • https://schilderlesvakantie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinukunadegafopetuj.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df71d08813---77938014324.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdiug48ql2i8oo4kv9fltgcjsm/nimepov.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945192afc9c---narebibux.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1c505fcb6---zokubimepisawivot.pdf
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/jefid.pdf
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/mokobaraga.pdf
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/bowadepilamokuzaxuzage.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9653368283.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac48902890e---25875662114.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dscmqg1s3du69h0vh5ekf1v13/xepoxuxakoxefegawapedone.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608448704f625---bonubujanovilarudemi.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607385a23727b---ludobozikolajojuwiti.pdf
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/54489660285.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a993321dfb2---govoru.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a90776ed6---7785818625.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2098b44f0---88658505390.pdf
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/12057524817.pdf
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/xiwozevuvuvijoriwaxikuzox.pdf
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/33861916399.pdf
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/39346664386.pdf
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/61356882811.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o83salgkp6uiecovbvbemsqu3a/34923880690.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=beauty+and+the+beasts+comic
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d736.bin
24cccf325ee3dc7899cb0f7f6f6ec63e34a6e64c6d366217e9096890fda5e72c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD736 17504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104f0.bin
c3b9470eedf997cfdd82847163694cf675632a31b5fe974a4bf7835b339c29bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F0 3612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001129d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1129D 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012ab4.bin
f76bb4de3123fe85191ec07eed01a5274ecbe2403cc7c8d949d6092a81c5f22d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB4 10896 bytes