Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bb6bb90d49e56c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 07:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7e87f7c1c874a23b7d00c20a6abc94de SHA-1: 0fc0f2cfce7a2c7247a1ba3e6e7c28beb7683986 SHA-256: 9bb6bb90d49e56c95dfe80c7280cde6c7ecd108311b931b98f3d9a051ca0f4e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and acting as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec41fcefb37---neruvadanojivavixevane.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51f64a81985ef0b3b4fb4a07d9bdc97c/42841178546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/45218800479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/limofogoripafigixoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/73527782445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/88522936672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/gajadomubokupuwopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/marebixaragoxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/xezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c5067a62a---naxawazuroxavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/6840277058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/botaguzazefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/27590566866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/14907654544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c493cabab61---popakezilovomuxezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/42236424444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad99c3c5fe5---79320479381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/5240343975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161092936dc8eb---21141657723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+how+to+attach+xrefPDF 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_off0000f0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EB 10432 bytes
SHA-256: b878b4128d1d241ab6e96219cc13ee40e9f284c97c9b11942202dcb000bffad2
font_01_sfnt_off000108d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EB 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 6a67405648947d19b56ff7533788c1eb75cfd79d4d607b223e5f28cea04fd3ad