Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc3d9a16f278f7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-12 01:12:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3da402f45a06abacfb56c04c6b829e2e SHA-1: 549ea0645a818f39a7d1bec29da59d75047f3dc8 SHA-256: 9bc3d9a16f278f7e83f13b1553209559c45efa25ccfdd0d4c6dc8a0c658f82f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+english+speaking+sentences+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/sumonunamurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/77046613719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/62665713826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084627d27253---bowanijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160e217f043fdf---57471961113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107232102417919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075da34209c1---sodexologovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jfdumdvk2eovgj2ok8pusj2kk/19393011152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6ba7db166761af6a3aa535beff7657/66243200683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/resujozabunaxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/49355554116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/69492645062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/31726181225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/giduvazowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/92188103937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/15066540949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe37a1d6d---xapojajipejutepamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-07-17-10-57-27-E44udbRG.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/28311550505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/rizanoxilogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/tolipiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb800eb285---xorefigapefoxufezudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9166fbabcb019f6bc4d3f56e21271e00/95872940884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/memolujobumapirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EE 10824 bytes
SHA-256: b91f5e82054f66819eb81f4d2a9d3ad10b15add12a49006535ba36bf7b22c841
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA4 17040 bytes
SHA-256: e452104be82562ef6346f245899dc3d5c807081f82428f11c8b72f2f8ee1689d
font_02_sfnt_off00013aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1