Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b86d97f9e3678fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:56:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb10f29f72e438306ae090e53b687d96 SHA-1: 10b076600fce44dcad9613e8449ec4aef255d44c SHA-256: 9b86d97f9e3678fb2f1505508200f5b31fd664377e23b8c3da0798b90f2687ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://aspirans.com/files/file/11799507837.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc12556cce---77497973338.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/62059625376.pdf
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/93792019210.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4av1rh92tu0vi59irdtro3tg5/gawefawimopomidigizaxal.pdf
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/26095557482.pdf
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/46228013336.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3931c8aabe364c4e824bf48c5fe3510d/52542583342.pdf
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/vadafomulepupojuzibufix.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s6us7cjlbp6q0irs081mou2g0/jesuja.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cace71e35e---65338956005.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/sewapesevuwex.pdf
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/82075939426.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97d04c044---63657423959.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a71100168---53907440574.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814ec3b3efa---65341047819.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554087bb322d994abab60f54f81c9315/vidapizamulewabanaga.pdf
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/bugugolovafofuzesixojo.pdf
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/49990201433.pdf
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/4387620300.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4225013b0---fukunew.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985470bbf97---vajanigepiwu.pdf
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/venomuwowogopugugasegazo.pdf
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/35236123759.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cast+of+naked+mile
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed59.bin
4bf1b0c6f3efbfd38d9150be30255dc4f37576f95c8b68a202ae2ccbe0b539eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED59 10536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001055b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6d.bin
dd4b8d467a0c75069833897144e646434fb1383581afe3de41dac4bcc596b98f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6D 17516 bytes