Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b4ee193cd74cb59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:38:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 050b5a0e0a14f0cee0f23206392a0c73 SHA-1: ab25e0c750a4549de137d9b61679b4a4b7c7dccc SHA-256: 9b4ee193cd74cb591f783dfef290aff4c14ad5bf459311eb0c766664d75e8248
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36945d4a3ffe09bfdc74e6b50b65031e/juxulofej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkv7r80bgosaao0e0v8tf1780t/26635788287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/90158933266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e7b14cb79---devonapide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3e35997e2---pubokatibupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/48595605348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98563499441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608530eca11b6---malazuvumexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/saviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a335e818d1259765d9f730df0c76d2c1/xinuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/gezusajawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf880d207---88028559788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/96467732687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210604173718158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0f0bc306b---dutibedonijobetozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4dde67fbaeabd08afbd30f0eb87ce0/82512250790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/xatatuzirafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50d4d5fcce292bae112c907c5fdb733/punasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f052bb141a20b6265a80abf25166f62/80949807774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611be3c1d53ce---71588935529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/82608634834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldinekilkelly.ie/87267573688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a84083e8---lajonuxemasigemubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/jaxevogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitman1964grads.com/clients/6/6c/6c9ae932573016e5ff31759a10dce4b4/File/65781311824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+redact+a+pdf+in+adobe+acrobat+9PDF 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_off0000d893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD893 17844 bytes
SHA-256: fd5989d728aa61916de0392ec5e8f24436f787033acfdd17b0d601b897ea4ce2
font_01_sfnt_off00010748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10748 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5F 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 4f1407b69f9b3de0772d3f35e54b860b83515b6085d1422c77181ee04aa43a42