Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e09280cd9edd51f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e03c8d64b4c9c2107262f0fdb68b3e26 SHA-1: aa2ac9203ae76d136069375360ed06e48aa00937 SHA-256: 9e09280cd9edd51f650db32be3f2881324f9ba37633f37d3019af0a728aad6e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution attempt, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL targets strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=impossible+puzzles+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608675209b943---xinixibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943af21f1f---jakezibitiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/20269899070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b981ce0d7---8060663924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/putunuminirepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc5f926e729---82101498232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/95628749322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68aa053dc8---12772781152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608038780f2c2---88048321163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents//files/70645975683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/lisefukejesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce675dc773b9e03cf4166a73246fc1a1/bigibudozilezomuguxikuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/85344392784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799ac2db9cf---lexujowupidijesiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/junajevijamuzosezefatoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd347231cc---vevinoniluzozudibuxefufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/88778707311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/waxifomisufizofunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f462e5dd1285caf174e2051045137929/47043916905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbv57vkabp3qrd9jodfkqj3rd0/77640301540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607989861daf6---89273334912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/fazakipagusinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210529134404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf37be6e68---30112152938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2a3899a41---85385101278.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_off0000ebb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB1 16764 bytes
SHA-256: d325b4fabecdbca16bb6af0f99f8435db2598bdd4f9bd1d15d79e0ac07b7a6b4
font_01_sfnt_off00011761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11761 10852 bytes
SHA-256: ddb94161fa8f89d9c7e5a3ec48106be2c1033357e9a8d18a10e8332ca971f60f
font_02_sfnt_off0001301a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1