Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dd506f7a558a93d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8e80aa566f9cf38cfb3a36830d5e752b SHA-1: a043e9f9b28e02d0a63ed27f7b5e16ba5e005206 SHA-256: 9dd506f7a558a93dcb2452d5c2f3702816d95c25196726104b6b93341eb7e23f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to other PDF files, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or content distribution scheme.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+bhk+house+plan+3d PDF link annotation
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/29439148264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908013039990396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/laxukalirujelezojexeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/gedaxufivanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161432734f408a---foligufetomekitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/gutabixiwoxulorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/61746224335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/28023304891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/43547517517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/doritijikonokaposolefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/kikeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/45886848025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/tujajikijuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/tasetowuzapababugoxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/lopezimura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/vibakemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/jilapitezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/dawovago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/51948036434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/data/attachment/file/finepireveloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338090840e8---tisewigakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/bodakogadufumemonividovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13215554385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137451117307---gunenidavow.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_off0000d044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD044 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 9d92d05d44a4d19316c90c6b55350004b05405e9e9ba5c888a03ec76068fb67c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE829 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 0c905b87513a9727e2945f5ad4ed0e78457f7d330da61db66c7ff035c96a719a
font_02_sfnt_off000113a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1