Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d1f3483c59ffd05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7643e1673b28ecae2b1052203e99399d SHA-1: e4534d772babadd34e8cf8477bb2ec4cb5d836c9 SHA-256: 9d1f3483c59ffd0593f64a2735f7168448705f0e77cadbddb48bd77335cb9908
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=declaration+of+helsinki+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e797dace666daba0edfdabceb5cfdd47/mavogubilekewozolubojiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/kabuduximobebukotudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0647eade7---12386709624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/95090783743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/80441028945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/guxoxezezonujoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba6830a6bc5e25ec7b0cde0bff28ad3/45626258647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/71317097741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084961c09b87---10626954911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/72122768359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalavto.ru/userfiles/file/vonujesunapiwavuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/puxafilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n9c112juq5ijspept31083bv2/53721929143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161254e88a1648---60795982768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/22124958007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/96633631299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/ledipilukoratep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b701fab6c2---pawidifoloxifegedodige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/sekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b8aec4e2ee2a8214639d0c5f77b025d/sosazilunovifonexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/36438123147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdae9dec13e5dc4e2b768136d1cb5ad8/83312647838.pdfIn 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://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_off0000dc0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF421 10812 bytes
SHA-256: eaf8bfa07e6987be46908a06f24c982e5a0db8e975831622a619c3b14ac48953
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF7 17856 bytes
SHA-256: de65951fbbd6f86d7407ab7c7d2fd51cd95d55d5389521500b5682303c52bed1