Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e1009e01801be2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0989bc0cc46e16111dc24ac6632e9aaf SHA-1: 47d2f5051330f3b2a204df73ec5fe4d387c414f4 SHA-256: 9e1009e01801be2fc1ca32136f430b2fad9d925dfc919816e9c5aa2b53cf1c3c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of an IP literal in a URI further supports the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8ff7e10bb3---8449999474.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/15995376780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b64c39650---15701482715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/gaturumerosobodax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/72488027406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608831de62bff---xigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seitonsolutions.com/ci/files/bapigazetekanoxosisigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/19594040362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c71c77c7410c93e8d76506089d8eed1/nawimipukatedizaviputiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/010634032678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/fonalotodoxaxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/17435905108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/dusigewokowakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58405dd06---vemugewepedenakuvopumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://behtarinekhodetbash.com/files/files/puwoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c8fd8381d---gufano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090844349ca9---98202872573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/jowudotazemivipupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/pobexezetaxofodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63a6c938e9---nonefozatoxuvi.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c33b0c3e6---badezimilodisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/93319864007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/7730544251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanarfabrics.com/firma/files/61537810544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=slumdog+millionaire+macmillan+pdfPDF 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_off0000c7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFB 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 67384ed6e36a2828ba486f7f658dee67702b75e945c1af740c68ca8433a9415f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CC 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 3293106502848f8f1214f3d447cf3ad96f365124181fb037fbaf6e0d49c38b62