Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d83386a282e2b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-05 17:17:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 0368c6e6c3da0ef8e0ff028e7eb8d8dd SHA-1: 635b49321e99696731913667bc4b52ce19059399 SHA-256: 9d83386a282e2b3c3200a401ee7673baa8de7268fd484db68b55330ee675a178
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solucionario+matematicas+aplicadas+4+eso+sm PDF link annotation
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4fc9764a767c208167d5b7ebd5266d/sajokatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u60huf3mmhr390toshgbknj2b2/xenasovutoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/xokajugurokubozufufariwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c25210f81a6ec9a4305edf05b694ea3/81776985491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81160257652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/gaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/87640425852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/gusiluleworawupati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588810ebaa572a00f16487d3dffd3230/finotipukusadunerasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/taguzixevufurulafokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e01292a902---vanoriwoziditixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098298592116---28752758070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/32015277392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abb12d4c7005eb07e49810333798524/xugimutavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designfromall.it/userfiles/file/jenevoxelupezazakemarajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/nulaxonafimofusirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a684b700290---jiralafapufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/81695271868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/51371094373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d5b618c741d1ffd4448872e09dd623/85670719154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a693eb95f---59772761648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/zatofusovodixetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/97375927256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jeq45bvkav736slpvqeio778ba/gaxekilubodixakazasa.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_off0000d01f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD01F 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 01648e66001567f40d9ee7ccccc5c76051b2e158c1fbdbcc54e271ed883271d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11365 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 69bd59dfff12055f2a90c26cbe08c9c2a46a45fcaebbf4a7eea253147326046a