Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b34b10cd4314ea4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 76c58469555e0340e0f8e7c891761247 SHA-1: 038a60511d2e89df9d7fc98180cac0e69b30afa1 SHA-256: 9b34b10cd4314ea4a4ebbb9527dfd38bd50da2423effa12d6d8f0cbaae92347d
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, some hosted on disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rough+skin+on+side+of+big+toe PDF link annotation
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc519f3fa7---58561648507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2768a8738de17a1cce00d786555b1033/xitagekobumomivedile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fe91b6e2afaecd228e2ac201da38631/17613602072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ddojt8auallrfku5oj3ntuhjc/22631482088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phillismaniglia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6700e4d6b00147d13a972daa20b4fbc0/83675014955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097298028e1a---37684914395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/1623025544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunazalafelisubudupufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/nulaxukigofoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4db36cf804588080d7978386fdb7c2c0/dezosotukedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/pimexizobami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/4043247397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089740eee50c---46628931222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763240ad361---kenojeripezarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/71856072166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/wogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/90174653304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926829cc9a85497be9a56644a478b204/pipijexukarofozuvavepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91bb626e2e---93762571428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazidofelulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee370666b46a243ca7919a5b0962315a/17860564440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd7f843c4b---wepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288497b0577ec38e9aa2623231bde110/wobepopagijosomusopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/40370284152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/mabumugidukona.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_off000103d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D6 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac1ec3cc35cb8ccd5e58a89d8f7f0703eae39dbf654d9a23e878df4a2a4a85a
font_01_sfnt_off00013083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13083 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001489a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1489A 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 40ae0770899c58a97d5a5225763e7284510ccd5c3b7bc931ea74e6a75d53840d