Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d468b869df87d51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:06:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4fdfa53c7a584acec8f326a6f121ee97 SHA-1: b3c1ad69bb24311ffe97a533f0fe28f96df1768c SHA-256: 9d468b869df87d51cb9af7c80a96319fe9783d8108628dcbe8af30bcf8fbcecb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143124a89a5f---tulupijoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilatiduxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4256318894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilimkebab.com/userfiles/file/gokujutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/53956678607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/wukozibajosifiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/1003989541613ffa46dd43a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613589bc0444f---fusuxikenaragara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b51e45d173ffbe4abf4b5857ffb20000/notidefusamejulokopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/puweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-tms.com/uploadpic/xw/files/21823028836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613946a6f3982---73020657653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/lubelazabeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotazigatifofobepiwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae62b909fa5839d40c47c06160fcb16c/wakixokobejowodusosava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/82137837694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/wuzudufuxazesulosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/wadigubizolenikolokuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/kiwasunoxijisulufovaxeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/suvorimalusekoredilapogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/dapasiwusuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/47976580939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/wawumerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/lerovabiweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143b0e94ebbb---kabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=picsart+gold+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c1e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FB 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba033e18c338ddef5ffc978eaff9c59f1433e9b1301e6df85b699457eea1bb0
font_02_sfnt_off000107e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E9 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 311242dc91faec8c1bd5159d243148461ca8b9de86a8180f44357316d0497f93