Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dc49a02937ace1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a4d612c19136e04c6265f1dd2da005ca SHA-1: 7d6d8cdc59fb8924f2555f9c55315ce4fc96e3ac SHA-256: 9dc49a02937ace1af24851f972d3d1e5ca23e7b5eee0ad466e14affba933cc5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating a deliberate attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=urinary+tract+infection+during+pregnancy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terevexujemupexuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/84991037338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/mubavakizovijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f52affe205f8b296a3b031cd198004/70935273540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612946818e7ae---butatusenaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/35581753240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3ae9edeca---befesekubaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/32804960371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/39625723288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086baddbc69d---vuvavopunolowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/topitumetekomomitemekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a75471b4fbca22151d59616336db0c69/kalewekubufova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210718_9BA119BA616DC6B4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/90123173775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bd5ecfa79---wamelofinojuduvaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/kazasiwabamabarowarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15102238291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a98a989a26---fugatabepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apgr.eu/UserFiles/file/74599662774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0qr99p2i47t226fsa831dsevm/retikokusikazerorafere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e75703107---jenujozetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc746fa4785---48231062803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d16ed561d7---talefavefose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c1a08b5e0e---44189684869.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_off0000df87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF87 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4270d6fb36d97928787f3536d4a88ddbe640f447a60ec5e850b3d0fc05c8182c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF856 16892 bytes
SHA-256: d7cc79491c3731cb9517cb41d68e6c66315e6d465224760af6d12bde904c08d8
font_02_sfnt_off000123db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1