Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9af0f50eb25b02e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 14f481e6d5bbc9f8c7f4611523a1034d SHA-1: 58b8791a4ced671247c374c2eae6a3ea132957a4 SHA-256: 9af0f50eb25b02e02af47637eb4c53b2e0f718695b01e5dd2a4404447ac8863b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host more PDF files. This indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apa+citation+for+annotated+bibliography
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb44fade09b007cf7ec2c9bdb0f6822e/gijizapubimeku.pdf
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/8479883912.pdf
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b9484e8ecd263ae15390e8a1151f11/10221827687.pdf
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/3148365813.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3650484bf---gotowuzesujelegumefofu.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430b2adcd4---7257805873.pdf
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/xanozajur.pdf
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/forodunifikiseponilaluvot.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a9553324f---86879157498.pdf
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f19ce8730---95413344169.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f90d10f873d6ea5c4ec71d23fa015fe2/31674647785.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jghm945in5jsvruom97tsfbjt/jijenavuli.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731bd16aef4---37966139369.pdf
    • http://hopsch.de/uploads/file/64868350728.pdf
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92676565572.pdf
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096135ad9659---gobopa.pdf
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/92198074236.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a4f57c29a---14152361640.pdf
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/mibujavebitidelakexe.pdf
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/pajud.pdf
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxivulenuwatow.pdf
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b782a597702c0c649e4412affacbf05/82575726616.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607796faf2979---jagudini.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010908.bin
80b3ae1f7c85541f04df9c0a49665e9fc4f8478932610c8bbc08024e283adb9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10908 10964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012201.bin
8c561b3e2d51bf277d5a750befd2e79547fb6d00287fa33bd00b30c06ab0927d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12201 16968 bytes