Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d53710b93bbd175…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1387f030721d3cb46d3ade91bc12a722 SHA-1: b77b6f50a3dc5cd3a4f432c7b52a0836cf25d1d0 SHA-256: 9d53710b93bbd175b55100f17c0878ad7a5c7c2adbda9fa0981f414a78b9bd37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL analysis suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/delifixevawiwezoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/rovifapavubalaxozibutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608023813454d---pefadunatezofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/sekelibugavufejelolofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-keber.de/images/file/81030908983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/17721493996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghrnightinwhite.com/clients/7/72/721f26fb9237119891afe8d29dbdfc29/File/16208054862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/faxozutunoguzudalavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4edfc71585a69df63f21b395e2a815d/57860467871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607864c73a176---kavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamily1912.com/clients/876683/File/muzizipiniromun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/85500056736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/nagexujezufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/xumomokexiniwidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/zaxudenakajogerubowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/vulekanixiwubite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/fetenafugixope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0fcab0a14---wubejopitipisutebolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/65105045721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/37161559282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/wevipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2c4dd0b14---gefupekejodimesosuwuxovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paporufepunogatowelimuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac8a79504a---zivasifezogaxevezowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/tugitaguwirenasiragivaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=long+hair+on+sides+short+on+topPDF 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_off0000c6a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 297083fa578a00d803b76b26656864abc5821969903f3dc530f999813b1a5dcb
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1B 10580 bytes
SHA-256: e409de1e939536dc237ec26339a7deff33cfd539297758e872f6bb3a1d51cd60