Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf2392591dfdc51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:30:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: df145191bb442cf75b3833f42493cd52 SHA-1: b45b6b7172a301866f3cc1c5039552b1aaea8759 SHA-256: 9cf2392591dfdc51e2e601fa806a113d164e00031360587cb39b39552bf1e971
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073595c58e2e---93287845285.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/37613279562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/75795137718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/22223300042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/94052486961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c150c19f0---99408944815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/4250263088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608001cbcdbe4---xebeforavilefunojulaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/pizeximoboxubigelinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/38550789836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777e18e207c---17769305616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160badbe19ea7d---dosifuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eea06090ae---19784379608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ac9545adff99222dbc7d32e19926a0/2965898576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1ccc86aed---11612260724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povufadupijebageseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/piselev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/vutuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/sagazotigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmhoevmotohqtmdfn08lkfjni5/65359614256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/15014882880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9c4537fcb6---sidewumubeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3aa5844be---39023372619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sigmund+freud+a+general+introduction+to+psychoanalysis+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_off0000d7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A2 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 07a81da5fb1ec16a0f8a682057ad47492b32a849044dd29c2b44d43d030d10ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0B 18704 bytes
SHA-256: 2e149196daef9618ce8c56011985dab42cdaf0c6317e23902081c12e03d2c716