Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dd92cb58f95d12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:23:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fbaf30e50f1b3208cf9743c0b31b13f1 SHA-1: 6c967432d8cd7803921603b73b4703629d4a57ec SHA-256: 9dd92cb58f95d12e005c56a264fb4b640b49bb47172ce08f042feeaee14da645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially compromised domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911235115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/23651183893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613649a9e58fb---xifetilalafonudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37607572326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/dasinoduzujeroxelubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/97732168262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13093727166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19672746982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/65743380774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/57632418684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82050026573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e75238c9b4---5995084634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjot3pqom6kc3a3t83uurntue6/41268034390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/gafokuxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb82e5309504539b9233854152f2faa3/45536224506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d6fd06ab119dc459f2aa25fcc153fb/40513309893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/lafimopimowetopuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb32922eb27d9032aa5fe1365b679dd/88561362988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/fusemokilugajeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d8dcd7b92---81032998365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024710a323ee90a62cb116680cdcfeb3/65091973725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/laloxirabaliworowabane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=weed+firm+replanted+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cf5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF5C 18016 bytes
SHA-256: b0f238ad2d2ccce6d9f49abf216620fb688cba9fae796a5922fca6c441a2211c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE47 10456 bytes
SHA-256: f8d0d5810268b8f0a819e08a10bfdf42a68cf807b337f03ee7bc1998ad8736a5
font_02_sfnt_off000115f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1