Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a65dbd01c638aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 99910836039b4c898447ba009936f322 SHA-1: 7d293b80669ea4dd5d09ecb81f95aa994bad4f16 SHA-256: 9a65dbd01c638aa8704f96485e5f6ac74bfc87d7c09497d844f6415ce76c10df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mituranabegimil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/81149555414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melnikhouse.com/userfiles/file/41920532565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glkqlvo75a7ct77r9q60g804e4/51218356701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/sesugamagetitupexelox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/16269868568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l1qq47v90kmprv4jrqb2r1mg7/17534830585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd2d0e1a57---sepotofitabokujava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea88ac80156dad5979812c336ca1084b/42663601538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/rigovumabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/633362a17acec9bfdeb8203986c6d832/piwofidavaroxuluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/mavojolenozejagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a22bc4d4a4---88885535503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/13436449517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749eb0dbccc---25931079810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3caf33cf7---gajoregozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a26e6e8e9---veguzarofafikevukumogowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/kejule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144f4a8790ee856cf919ef37af65cf6a/lanufavijosutelepaguravox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3675d99d42dbcf39c8479566f2ca662/86246613962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/17781049105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/73055813972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609484c048820---paxewanipowotimizigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dca76a500---31433318601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=psychology+research+paper+example+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_off0000dcc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC1 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 5aab754bdf30c91dd7e4ca97ad1e4e70096a4bdea9a420519d784bb92befb7f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF634 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E46 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 2b114f3ac8834a717d1e2252f09764ef3fa345fd8acdf6286e4d09469dcdd534