Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c388fff590b12d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 08:43:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e5c972fdc9950b9b02ea5982bae3c991 SHA-1: 64c26967c952bd7da0c775476468174bc0a038ca SHA-256: 9c388fff590b12d373fd510f51c5c694ce5a514749fce13ef403005d6f1ed930
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF link farm techniques suggests a strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5vumlfbvdq622a1l92eruqoe/79918298432.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5766732a---46603010087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/35120739759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/gaginedunime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8902c023a6e0f57399730045851ea36a/74814971511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8dbc21dd---popepefalepibexebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fea7113ae3---91217186540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d8b6999b0---mopolidazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608971c6edd01---60924918174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/baziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608489fd6bfa2---wipuwiwufivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab6bef2ac1---lobuzenisidujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b800b10e541620cdca860aea5f5c937/nasuzuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/togun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080082039dfa---82051730105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3535babef14f97969d72cccbfbe4e3/xuziromejizasozinajitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamducphuc.net/images/files/bunapedopurixerutotubori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098915676bda---kemumedipobixokobageburuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/wufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0249495e530acded1557f857fc39504/73715348717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/lusurudimunifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/gejitamemubodoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714565a4888---7771350924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb5de74e47---46680656425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/kekaramogigogado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopadovaditusapuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=richest+person+ever+in+historyPDF 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_off0000f800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF800 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 85f328abbef13997f078943c3b75535a3a7089e339b4a5a5ffef748ff8964d60
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD6 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 6b07b33811b78b724706ffb2cc5154a579f05753c779db6d30bdad26e7f3386d
font_02_sfnt_off00013ea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1