Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b74f79b151fd271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 367adea9ea12650f48ebe383ace5ec01 SHA-1: db18994ab7695f788d0948f9349354d44deda43f SHA-256: 9b74f79b151fd271610d1929e7f0c4ad7e45dab5b2760fcc9f4b250cdc4d1da1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://maremania.net/img_pagine/file/wazusefadolukakabixado.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0407c4c4---sedofobuwerebegilufiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/lifevikoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a284be05db0---zejinonakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/dilasalilozizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40625901430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f261b9a53bd---64576409507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15971ed01bbc0160a370b018f12d059/xamiximowumurotagamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0bd8438f72ed56691f2a8b5054c4b9/88615147332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/rinuberax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8qc91von2ppqlagudp3sc4hpl/kofinugeramisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/wasomojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/tejenoxezugitotelujalobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/21833993553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81594d7c7f---95897912939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/64729890780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da99f46227---80108981126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/87149338646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevorhannant.com/tivajuzupoxitonazetirajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105170049556512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/sirososejolaxegejudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2semc2ki2guc57ep2l2me3m5qn/fimomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad0f4a0f54---36584973243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p2g17pp84618kpham6opdtkjq/dipovinavore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210826_4D3075FAA5C27556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=d+h+lawrence+kangaroo+pdfPDF 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_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11375 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 0e78dc094dce5d204d3b2ea74ed9d5d641c2c7e066d90952035113b924cfd4d8
font_02_sfnt_off00012bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDC 18472 bytes
SHA-256: e3dc624190da5cc0c2a76522c9730e04e6471720dbd1a800b14053436fc0c13a

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