Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c532c3a2bed2a96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:18:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a7f757b363bf49ee41b49ef0cc4d46d0 SHA-1: a9d109e9d68af5a245b108a0f81afb57d44127bb SHA-256: 9c532c3a2bed2a96d7f7768cb51280daf4f49ec7defb9f81a477de65c02f354b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic and numerous unknown reputation URLs reinforces this. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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 http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/diwekezev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202109181828387963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/kitudexesuxenosopeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dar-tom.pl/userfiles/file/muwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/9505340146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinacafe-dalat.com/Images_upload/files/41536455409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344bdb4acc2---74963233696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/92585080868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38301372648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2173aead85c30df6b0869c6561bc0fa/gusagejerezazimefabido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/31020847939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c31e7ee979---43426173714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/fudipapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkconstruction.com/Images/Media/files/sutigavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f266c2ac---kezexivadikitujavomeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/levejobabapurawufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc53dbbd2465a6461ac4745a7095ecda/93856234097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/23833546486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvuretezokerubimerefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/79219046266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94319498386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/78990704768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/12924332855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/pasomonopozujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/tajepekonukoloruvonoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/faworudixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=android+uri+parse+examplePDF 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_off0000db8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8B 20504 bytes
SHA-256: 9d90ad8b6a2838b9a9187738a0e2977cf147e2e6a748d7f8067f1d444829806b
font_01_sfnt_off00011304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11304 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 7467e1c5816bf81525feacdc7ec354cf4d74ca68e28b7ad6f1c22d66d4d9442d
font_02_sfnt_off00012b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1