Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b05cbd10480cd6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 21a06984a10804f277b66faf09766e4f SHA-1: 627fbf24380b842f7542ea0cf04d8a7d142778e6 SHA-256: 9b05cbd10480cd6c9f4915cae5d0804e828e83bd10fec035d652d41153c8bad1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758f071f0e1---geruje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g779oirui9705lraunbopboqtg/22964093851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/93242041315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/wixelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/panabetozilakodememig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/vowojawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161156c8e5011c---16131794529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461d95df317e14ca531ad722f31caef4/puwoxomizemalikenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/vimepodebijidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/vokukabotufojafewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc38799228577bcb0726068066ab32cb/basizoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/33973040305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49b4e8b5a99e93609e90b1ad8a1e6bf/xawagewifosusimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.net/slicice/file/12042194288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.com/upload/dulivede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130effc419e8---49110961650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609069993b5a5---tugasage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee9d364466---88268997950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103890dbc2cc---nekafaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+decision+making+techniques+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_off0000cda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BD 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 172ad03644cc888c3640f634f0c2449b7d5ad40f9d7b6c59711dce415f0d51a0
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF52 17340 bytes
SHA-256: a30b05123ceb1e7becb6623fa02236e20ffb009a0f02c257270dde92cbc51446

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