Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9beb4821c8220e18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:21:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e438469f91fb361e82ee6bbe54f5b13b SHA-1: 67346ca0caecdb59e4aeac4439c6b8c362e9b252 SHA-256: 9beb4821c8220e182b9dd67a0c18f54d6e0a4f4972a574ad53ea4e61ad75a859
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic strongly suggests malicious content within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gupkc0knm7rpk4nn1fbf13lrkc/marufezerisawabawawafisa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96854554397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/sivetogifaluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/68416522213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/dufadexagetajazepabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/18334356477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/18374820993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/42447128276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118d0c8a229b---97217864473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabufikevotifowonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/pifanukagokewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/negezekejubapumajawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32747765653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/58695868937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bcb7e8837---66196117094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719299ac42d---24382802404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355676a589e6209571080c1bc7108a4c/23421442366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turomoxatuwuwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a23f9c88a---11155964327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/jisufokitusivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e9baaebabaa2784991d781d32ffc30/16208332558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=english+exercises+tenses+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_off0000d640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE57 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 83faa85e80028d77a4e35e38e0a57208322c070b27c4c3e218829a4c26a89eea
font_02_sfnt_off00010696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10696 17688 bytes
SHA-256: d6cc57455a9cbf787dfb1f0eb334dc6420a31287e01c40ac12fda4236d3d0c2a