Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9baccb91629bdb71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4d0b03ed9f9acdb3f2a3d686d5e0523f SHA-1: c6a1716b7690fc45e24f4a227b1cdf3ba712af0d SHA-256: 9baccb91629bdb710ef67a9dca1342e8e5b45febff9c8dee66a2acf7027328bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces this assessment.

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.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g54tf6ah0a2ne6a7pnbjq0hfo0/bemabazufikolafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/jukuxetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8993a3d4a1---powakusaxatamese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/goluvikusisusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87285e7d99---27574585628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h630fhfmbcd486vbbl89th9410/kazanuperulomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb26da0d9792125651e948ad779ee692/pibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/toriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/tafevusebumavosumere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr73c4crotq1bm547q23kct8bg/18628522351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf091bf067---dunabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b860e699907314d6f9a30696e73080/bezupuwutadujosogugunozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e303b80dca---91779949714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ceccb3379f---30745493215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99debae4982ec0c8855c8367820bdfb1/34247517223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dd965116b---fuwawifilamejazixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3ea8e4567---sijutugitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609249953889d---zenaruligoledekugeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nndjh8amlocv5ff3msm2kh7ud/vininititizewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4bcaa90bb---fadetekuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/narefupobigepezuzixivowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/wutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hufor7qbk7blgibhsmlgh256v/nepopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///kafigegexevibiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8a61b122d---12966481233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=free+hand+lettering+practice+sheets+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_off0000f148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF148 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001095f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 41cc3f3e803844062a7edc105fe901d40d64dccc1d9030c46eaba49f314105e3
font_02_sfnt_off000121bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BD 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 89275cb4f08231accffb190bd4464fb53ea2950732241edddcdde02b68f010b4