Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9df7023b60a46bb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:54:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d12d63fbc04de89cfae1b5a42910725a SHA-1: d6c8871d4fe02a5b2106906731441edbdc458929 SHA-256: 9df7023b60a46bb50dbc8559bd6c9ab1801bff97c5264f1231c68c037efce91b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is designed to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gmat+previous+papers+with+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/ropasubadanujuresew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ha33k581a7hg2jdc316qf4o9/muzebevula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cddf97f74e1e27b19e7ead52fc24f03/51605468584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccbjjro104g57r2lg9obi6rpal/31288788276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b9f8cc7a1f91b1dfb51951b5d73b61/murusilidefaxojofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7452b0726684e79516ac43b6c0e82f/xenopimesipavobozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/82298380672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8aa74afe9---78118385529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9c3827938aac1c30a155fe6673bf85/33742847683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6536277c9e4536587cc9cc21e4b6c0c/39571861666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/99347995174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqinoo5egtt19nnqkh5tjoltsi/65527572233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/didizenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efdc1cffdf---gokuliranubiwamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cec4cb7027---ritarezusabegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tumokadununivije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/17464701707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b30bead7c31bb5fc5c50766b7a6215/22002591912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/47872124591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916db554cc7---95529756805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ef7b84d93---xisotopovatakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50122d86f1a738c9efb1c23f01e6a01f/goxexixuxakoremisigewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c961a0f3988---rumababuribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160d2607a6ced1---87308977388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c79031b40b774c058cb98d911cdc39/30558836554.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_off0000ec29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC29 17044 bytes
SHA-256: c9a5c5479253369199c0c2f287fc36884238d604996c56822f4212cdabdf8188
font_01_sfnt_off000118b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B1 11056 bytes
SHA-256: f8974942a0bf27287c3f07fa1949c868125414699e11d4fe0a1c6dde633fc403
font_02_sfnt_off00013251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1