Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb3c439892a80ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 80517aa85b0724fe18cea02afe44c7a7 SHA-1: 6e157bfea81724d443565f206191ac91f96e54b8 SHA-256: 9cb3c439892a80ffae6fc145bbbf49ca54c7f9237d2a264072bd66f6906b48c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability to execute code. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu037vmua6tahv35lt3f7st4d9/gobefematibiwakevojuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/zixiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca03b1cf4eb90246750d420a5197e03/jepabutonamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressoperfetto.nl/app/webroot/files/ufn/files/garifoxokuroreda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/ditadoxobovasisivovavudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84390306f004a34e690e44652b8c7d9/87389901443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lordbeaverbrook1973.com/clients/76835/File/11510414081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/48779468850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakoxudesaxomalilufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720519f1e28---56261865127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/4486190192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021671017485769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85d177dfce---kovoladaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/68770209183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/70778779254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jctclsfvpi9kqggnmcv9jvqmp5/32949769279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roanfamily.net/clients/0/01/01b24a6c100194bbc8678883f3cd4a53/File/mibifabaregamojolakobukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/88355285855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/xesipemuwibonifuguxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609188da2258b---14813174189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2119f70033---36785693971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9057ee4f8684d717a7920da9093fb6/27116796269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/wunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/14381483983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/mipumisajitobinofapejunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f3177b500a7f1d40ba7b7aab950323d/xabenasixaviladogivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=scientific+notation+foldable+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_off0000ecf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF1 21424 bytes
SHA-256: 1045d8a7b3982a42d76c762fcb4c4be8ac175251727f8a7f65e9324d1085bc9c
font_01_sfnt_off0001233c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233C 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 931a0e0c6ce9d4fe021f5fb235f8d4b9b92521a69d679b0489e2c0360510406f
font_02_sfnt_off00013b31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1