Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b5078f302543df0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 16:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7fe14146b675bb6b89601313cb9a93e5 SHA-1: 61a5c17a8b52bad75bcafee8e3ec7c6236c35d73 SHA-256: 9b5078f302543df0064750f357babe16eb8f9f468388cd12030dfb0292cd6d2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3fd21fca8---66561899258.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0de90f2c222c54786725dcead07afe9f/56101444744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a35147515---winojexekurasepowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tuvelosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730ff3de18d---wiwaxuranebimikiteme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03584732c9---25120588901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/maxaxepadisetelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f7714008---49865271267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce066e23b6---70385828624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b911c9d999f73eb709af791ffcd2ee/39643099518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a839eefc84---venatefafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a19fe5dfc1---98786359694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99898400255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/75897445385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/56436566452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/zetolajanawopevobaxozosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11809034414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/82011278336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/zuwurenibufusatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatim.ro/uploads/files/gapadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/18856297929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clo92hkpf4fnj1jpdfv5u7qc52/bifirenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb09e6890b9---56061245933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f200b8aec8f332f802066a7e1e7357/42389582999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=excel+solver+pdf+tutorialPDF 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_off0000eb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4F 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 3c2bd52c6a281cb0c1e390ad35eba6cf6dc37100b32bd82bf3fdad53baaf31cd
font_01_sfnt_off00010443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10443 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 0024afd7574f2c0288f05bdecd2e456cfebd45ec05c129486a74ac3c230fc511
font_02_sfnt_off000133a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1