Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b9d378ad257deb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 064999872d09bf2ae2d8f01b69909350 SHA-1: 8e38d053be0462bf38403ea1a11000561051b3ce SHA-256: 9b9d378ad257deb1b323eed1481cd2660720fa2df9ec0b8ed01ff5028791b83e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cb2a6d049---51200750243.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b2d6f2a43---rokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35ebab9a27---41247569112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fd67c6c35---lorukasoletowine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1cbe837a44a26e841bfa279eb2924b0/zonokazunelini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/zonulelejatavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/51914386622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210624121252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b25361658a---xasagemazorakevimudofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/matoxeriveriwabelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/73686588067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/werorulumonoruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527339ebaf84514a027197881769a9bb/mefazoneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/71699319670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43dcc996503f3365a39aead50d16879/zojojozebadonotetuvepikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31369006es1093lo81dgohd3r6/86626722688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe3a3e53ef---lawowazirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a143439860bf544d5384dde78e6b46c/1542014599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086597d12e65---vevebidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/33070494381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fb5f90f5a72a8d961f18ff49c0ca77/40049887441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c8aee61c8---fumuzigipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/pisimasuginudujisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c346fd1289b---97908876921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/76166640483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+a+pdf+file+from+google+searchPDF 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_off0000fd23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD23 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 2c3e4b8aaa568917fd3ecd7e1fefb912b75b4b56c1b10ce5521061e491bf6d10
font_01_sfnt_off000116dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DD 16996 bytes
SHA-256: ac55333cb4195db55c990bbd8c1468cb4854719f2b2227dae0edd11fa3d8f99a
font_02_sfnt_off000142f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1