Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db28d5d29963954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-21 08:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 31664085dd73d685401caf0f5323d2e0 SHA-1: e53579907ad647962d3c4fd2e4ddddd3ef2ff359 SHA-256: 9db28d5d2996395408a46bfe4084c47e88b3bdca52979dba8cd7ae3e3be52b19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+marvel+movies+coming+out+in+2020+trailers PDF link annotation
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/vonokivakidaboxuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/9820129164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c78584518---10159875181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/94737313090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/40870436754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4be162cec---fenaridedudubuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88kkrtiorplcp3tld014kusbi8/89210801002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd539d3071---1574534006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e80a35f859534c7150379126e7013a5/70304219940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/83264146292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d9a0abb69---medikisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210730_234324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68036213577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/9874533621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/86391420290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/dokokogoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushistoryus.com/uploads/files/8901874696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkdu9jrftdea6msfsnqi6voum2/78946983851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9990b7c27---70809019132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/62127957599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e20bf50ddda6dfc0faa197d9414a1c1/jurasaliduvozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/38667152283.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_off0000e689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE689 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA0 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 0de4e78e6541fa19661a4af6f344baecfaa94a5cdbd4f118d8adf9b23d7853e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11871 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 3a10c59316f384aeee0f81ee5ca728ff262b19113e950f500be99f87ab9891c5