Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ba87661a68f2c3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:29:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c76d3feecf0468c849531205c787b3ce SHA-1: fbbca7196a5eb9de86c40cda5194bdc4c500e42b SHA-256: 9ba87661a68f2c3dd6cb9dbff7f68e28222ec60941127b2153aaa9dac918c210
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/12/file/20210512_061007_145.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/muxuniwusevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/fibatonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/4190890951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32570539694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1901b81fd8b0ab8d76f039b15e2bd8/41390948280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/77531980167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26243410942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm7cbd59ec6t6fsrpke1ph9vm6/72856129329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d5f53e6ba---72446147524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9442ab79d---bigisanibutasurenipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464946ab5faca4aeff6169d2684675fa/61731724069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c56ba1d28---50711271186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhcreunion.com/clients/4/43/43f38dc94a4d709fe78decf5bd9d7370/File/sulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca242c7cbb87ac5f9f64e5f2ca3d96b/76601344247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1q2tfd63hgffbc6l0oncacttb/gujulomaburefagibusofuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d554e9710d7---guxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/64106956221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde9adce8befb65fec8db30090363a20/93968643639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc207e3870---dubafeviwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a004e90a6104ba80ddf15aa4631615c/rinodebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854fa395b68---dumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nthbu1puhqfe3qrhkrat08t9b7/39240155553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75d1825ec5a73043cba6d3ee23dc514a/vasuwibubigugudasajamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+a+hell+of+a+way+to+die+lyricsPDF 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_off0001186a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186A 10660 bytes
SHA-256: b0c8c514fd3079ac7632bf267e19d8c68acb80b28ce95bb42bcf63c9685e66ed
font_01_sfnt_off00013109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13109 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 33170d3de6eb3eb344f2799470dd0872fcac2395f86196c516ea41c62292eec2
font_02_sfnt_off00015cd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1