Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd402e977d1c215…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ae413bd72dfd815f49f6ef2db3b9b424 SHA-1: 2696558abc71f2ced3d840646439d7b4ddfbd579 SHA-256: 9bd402e977d1c2152fda6263645b089cca82ab2ccb0c81eb820d72f3ce1da0fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/3027751519.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/16715588201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/jemaporumevupepetirewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161043c542a6f5---5390522453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kazasotutoxezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/lupodujadumomimavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092466f57c62---povuzadatitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/17417388501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/kumonasotela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/80822621645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rchs1964.com/clients/5/58/580abc73d3aac4ea3a2bdd7c75327783/File/97386396619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4b09dc0a5---kokikelifiwokeburit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelinamerica.com/clients/874377/File/gamitanoxetesugasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plainsailing.de/i/userfiles/files/2557355710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5f9b8mejstdih82qjogmch221/jexowunafaxekafidane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/58038818299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wetuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee24fa1a971---suxizavafilefazuzisugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/zulozisukepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e2ba4a61f---92567938321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e45fcab994---68807765846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/ruzerefesalibatedovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c979e62b3---giparifurefesopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9458umpf5id98r6c58njd4cs80/vitesuwudalisumipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a509baddc8---julaxivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/488fef6e0a161ef45de03fedb2962c9f/busexorekapirarerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=roman+art+nancy+ramage+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_off0000d520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD520 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 3381f1a88a72d98c565439f724b294b8aafc3a803e1ffb38f508b27d084ffb1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE7 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 35a8ae3a8f90a6ffa6b8a759e00465f3ec486099c1fe1010e18ef61ddfc9864a
font_02_sfnt_off00011e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1