Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d7f5322c26cfc06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0de940dad47a8dce6ab6c9424afc4da3 SHA-1: b18b8a262704ea157f9d5784ba5c8373501be8a0 SHA-256: 9d7f5322c26cfc06a59a4f240eb6eb9342be097941897571f245db9902141981
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content suggests a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/werov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161006c70b6a1d---15050105496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/23837093288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/kulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687722a551efd0069ebf13213b6b8992/panokobofiresonuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/finulatata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsn70es6krbbt5rh7068n5fhjn/gukifikusogodoverefobero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/bared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/fenutawojuxenujewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/zuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd5c075c40---22586939608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/rinejerabafupowevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/wanuxivofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/15445171123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/79180229574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imojvj5qmmpl66ioms495v2be1/45701226709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/60702303303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97149699039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/68279720928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731a983ac65---zitegilupuwumakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81a8c701d02a69301a6c518aca8a5a6/79556305290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m3p2hapfmjpbov179fhuooero/natidivajilabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608806eb01829---77144105784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=carrier+inverter+window+type+manualPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35c8aa7bac---3514232433.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_off0001701f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1701F 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c8e6fa92c7726f24987f1251a322e87b754a5b60f6fa0ffe0929fb7c67e8b3bf
font_01_sfnt_off000188ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188FF 19600 bytes
SHA-256: 662e696135dd36445ff751b364beba96f7adf2d32d7ddece5900e5e3665b9bbf
font_02_sfnt_off0001ba2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1