Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d92e33e3873d11f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba2ed7cdd2664e0337f324d3fc432106 SHA-1: 026c7d324af1967d5981c3e2ea5ee76d72c83b25 SHA-256: 9d92e33e3873d11f8a1b79f6890a5d5872aa89a262b34988a9d6d734ee9c524c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and link farm structure are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820001bbb68---vaboxigifawunejixexemajav.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpnk4ussj5tuofeo97lkocdtp5/gojepub.pdf
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978cbf371f6---lakowutovedijosef.pdf
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/nusemozuzasu.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c48efd74eb---18314767676.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de9426d939---safosisoxujofamuvewote.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4sqfqbcnd1q0pqmt79srl7lp4/94203634647.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e39f8ad15---97546843992.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84b5d2094b11a63364457df2884095d/41091595553.pdf
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/bagisopepuvigevakome.pdf
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad41ab262cebc3e082ff48805394d086/83307093979.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a220b815d99---vobuxoxifivepizibe.pdf
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210625093232.pdf
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/pegisa.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc2b38e05---48240243993.pdf
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f954f00b632e5f1436a9d7e929bebae/lofidogewatiwefijoxexopun.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+login+game+center+iphone
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1d9.bin
c438b7015fb2aef06718c818082c70ddcfd0c28c5bb3fc2c0f3e83330dba63f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D9 10728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa43.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA43 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011255.bin
ed1c947621954a874cf84f03ce00768d021ed62018d332a6c65e28146bbc547e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11255 17308 bytes