Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c933d260e455db6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 20:44:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2ce762cbec8ddfe625b60423c294f83f SHA-1: 6b9c9e3a31a1d680226210d3c09e285ce6476d44 SHA-256: 9c933d260e455db6337ee563be6542290a0ffe74a800f5bb5913effdfcfab333
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

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 http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/73582804380.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/xejudawujaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f796b5b65f---jakike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35208d0baf---lonegebukaridezipopumurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74d13fa7512fb24ba8bff421ad260ecc/tajevekonateme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df2b970f8e994e5a97319eb068b1741/51720878785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/navevenilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/tavabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gakagofedujigapoguwijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d24a1c894---95876044655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117147f6e29f---kavivowebegibukedogubuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/7165759475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/5464332394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26342240409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/dozagetapodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/4512884113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h29m7havduvug2djq87n3t1pv3/51819150711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28575504839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontsgoi.shop/uploads/files/rebiwurafiredirejofidazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/30312317162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/85361025310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4914df7d68bc8e69aebf0ffde5d44170/dorunimirokigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e0da835d9---3203478237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/93573600201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/64599568340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083178768638---63590235870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=grade+6+math+algebra+worksheets+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_off0000dba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BB 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 487ce8851fbdc16286c1e67a00b27835b33ff67ecf3a3481c4680e54ed85b939
font_02_sfnt_off00011e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E11 11276 bytes
SHA-256: b9b4e2ba2d59d2eec01126d60c55df83014eeee031c50acd6202d269dc9c99e0