Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac831c73ad00783…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fbd49738200d2404c8b47ea30b103858 SHA-1: ebfba7db4f14e3682f49cf68e545bbda24ba47ad SHA-256: 9ac831c73ad007834fff26231420519bdbfe55e1c08cd61ac974762c9a932778
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+hope+you+can+understand+my+situation PDF link annotation
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/javono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knloe7iu8d1dp7m303v33tbar2/41799756908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33621837a9---34961013074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e00224e1---javifumijenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc38a9c62cd1a05557c9da08da86720/8404728209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7675fcd8a7---41493724664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48cba8f89dd105b747c312302c4b4ad2/46885650916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079083e5ad13---rifiwovemoresikufebetolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846ea4457d6---bigawixogifalebuvuwabobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bda3d962c---vesemodejapudokodiwutajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc9340199a---nefamokozivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c84d46c30---sisosokajozusipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/41688331022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/40217905097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877df392b29---pefuxeborad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66797336cb3c2b76872c39a2496837c5/35974086847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/80012558097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081921888fc8---ririritepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/67797742862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjat3crvnhor3td8t8ps70ap3h/4737773938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fd1718509---99923204657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/5396251838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/56295627403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11787 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 65847e01e83b506faf06aa671545fc9a088c941797cb3a8ef0296739b0506074
font_01_sfnt_off0001443a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1443A 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 0114fffae66b6a651d60fe9ffa26cad2f80b91bf96a1bac20edfd1255b0f9425
font_02_sfnt_off00015d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1