Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d17dccef826ca56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-06-09 05:16:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 40f91204eae572b718a7184422e0f477 SHA-1: ab0bc0f2cc1e11b9c6f637cd2cccb675aebaea5b SHA-256: 9d17dccef826ca56e0886304a27b9e6604a9edd03ba2d54124e1cc8bc9af776e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics (link farm, compromised CMS upload) strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+phlebotomy+textbook+3rd+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f3fba42ad---goker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6dd43a4a3---42068197781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/komojabokavubuzurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/17334973403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c7cbb719ca810d4683fe3c8b41b881/pexebatiwavuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37671274a318a0db440062b80e54d4a0/93971495569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/68821911567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bb48df485---43658833302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784d7503e2---8389854030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/giwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98bfa483fbf153a522bd472134295355/xigiwozotore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d57d1697337a484d53725c409163d2/492086024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/vizovolepabipuwepiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ba31b0864---34344629141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv7cnj3ggf49gpeeap23m70gvf/93873019162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB54 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 06555f17e498a78af50f868087beb6c1a039777401754c568fcd6f74c55f4e2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD81 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 221b6c30543f0f84befbbff30d4aa3969fea4f22f77512bb16cfa37e4ffc8b67