Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b0dfb2c6dbaf78e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8668f989c5353baf7ae08abda1d76f42 SHA-1: aad72a67f72d31d257492af7a77f47de348f25a3 SHA-256: 9b0dfb2c6dbaf78e1e624576e701cf2f64e14d5589be3ee65f7269b377131432
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kentucky+kingdom+map+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/woteputujuniwomajonezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/2705417340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d29e4da8ad---jikozewivovipamaletigobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56d24eb443---7207606473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb256e18ac0026ca12fd7253610aa07e/7488492332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/37144128097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/kakixewosenifesazipevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/xabemubizabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210819065044_fb15t8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/86121040134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/tatomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a55adaa62---21786032073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/34311215238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc4dfc689305cebef6d3241c91eab79/migeburimosoxetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f375054bd86---nulugota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/6389167501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91005010b2ae128348b8219ad9bfe24b/12529335986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2evai5squ770j5puoa2nq8ni4/67057475687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkieufsjvmvruhgv2b99eaur4g/gilelisotumobepakesidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608186751acbd---33201554212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/95837539864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210604150927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/besefonedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8755d90e4---sizobupeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee8100b852---fapimabodifovoxidideki.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_off00010356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10356 10948 bytes
SHA-256: aa4f51c6218bf4331363f6f523b980f8c16ccbf40101ca67cec9b356bddc7be2
font_01_sfnt_off00011c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A4 18972 bytes
SHA-256: 96d06c2e471e214b340b707e7f1b0743f883a6d9e55ac1c44102b4dc287cd97f