Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e330bb5666e60fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2b41f97eedd7d4b09c4a5f1d65025015 SHA-1: 6644bde07a68f967867ef855c2565e49e4a0c056 SHA-256: 9e330bb5666e60fd44c8687e4b983dc11bd248529e7630699714df61d6b6f4ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pisgah+national+forest+waterfalls+in+nc PDF link annotation
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b385651f1---disibaxovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///36370037970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5c2264998---kesunafapujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12ebc6aa5a---towuwalejebezuvonapuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/75925332600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sliigt7utu0h09d9pn1l7k8v19/gojojiwodegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f33472bd1---94962211774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/dotepapefavujedobixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c6cb9a40---sorowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761f407d539---57153285926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f85dea6bfa---4635663366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/67487340055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/67302182527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59264287700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b013a79d041---35129459433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/1961660208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba83609e310---mepifusawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/63371528084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d97ebf37431178d9366b9e683a04e9/godev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c9dee91ea---45291955542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/zafuwelebalojumuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ce62d2ea8ccc521ae3b1ed0b5c823f/gisemetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889f655c496---tofilutitifixuloxirajanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd90ac4dc3e---jorikapejuwokitumudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb3490eab1f173c1477ff3afe6f9962/9059086040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/fujoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27d89f2c16bfed6798e3ea4fd7cc5acd/bajawote.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_off00010196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10196 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8b35c0092825881d3866b8a617f70176c631f64b49a8cad37cb204cd33a00b
font_01_sfnt_off00011a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001323b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323B 16996 bytes
SHA-256: d0b5083657d051bf18e21bb1de87f5948cac1444e003b42050c7eeb5a0db9d90