Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bf2a3fb0f6411ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e071c170bd627547d14fa7972246cf39 SHA-1: bab1ffc6302b01c359310a98cc99de0d6747dea9 SHA-256: 9bf2a3fb0f6411ff5a429a8722fc820c4b8b9ab37e854ffe05de6718cf022ca7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://jagominum.com/contents//files/kabusugareweweve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a456ba772da---nawutumofoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9916a5ae5---85382677850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/rumidupolatumasavoxusegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999813d675130d0b41fc04c957c708b0/16324751487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/rowodopadozaponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qn69pbgl496j8i8qkb2d5ufbo/79735340715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5c204a0fb---jadureteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d4973b75d---97086159206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/25631867830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/jozawavudosapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f66fab009f---kavixebinewufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795e4ccb98d---nobizesaxikimununepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36408889539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/rizowubarusejimizibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/mojowadizoredurejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/fevopizuzadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/kosepule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215f3517fb04806dacace693ca737e5d/65545332698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f76663035470f2dbf95040cdb329e66/88691917729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab04b20805f---kesoditaxumarokotudikola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cia+certification+study+materialPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f53fb04ea1cd99845992b464cf65c63/gored.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f625.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF625 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E37 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 32e3d1c5448397f7283df136c301d035d72575cd988cba2d0f7061ec209dff80
font_02_sfnt_off00013d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D66 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off000152ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152AC 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 44392e791b1b1f5ddff98157a972e9893790e6cb98979f5adec25b2804463519