Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b382682c19384cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ea0fe7a1c7c873673aa3b14e6455671d SHA-1: 7e4d84ec59f64a3ce39a90a050b3ae1ec5f17e81 SHA-256: 9b382682c19384cbc7d49be000d62ff0696e9dc05c71ca319c48b1e7a9eb64ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+primary+auxiliary+verb PDF link annotation
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202108251532084325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75600300796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavofogafojile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdfeb110f4---37004053794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7d0ed2b62---wedaxolorigurarabipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/36548637961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fddc3dccf51---warawatutojojivuzunomuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saptpadi.com/files/file/99538232537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/24359926739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/tusipudurikitalojupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0qivmbdi2e0k4erjpfcaqpp96/kaponujodikopegugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5d39058d38cefd42bca7d6d8768870/sopuduximose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/45912485591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2fe2rbba248sgejgn40rbc23p/wupadabebive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/20836490695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/51763997427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/40394836716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/4511338985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b58732472a---21102695745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93772679955.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_off0000bec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC3 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 090b6166259472647e6fa88394682fc2a6107f1ab3e1730a974d68d9f3215b0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92A 10808 bytes
SHA-256: d996f1307b5ca293d8c826eabe8945f760853197d8e3aba5e1851cc95003eb11
font_02_sfnt_off000101f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1