Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e54e07f7bd1f8ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f38bf7c20853976fcb5960840c88999f SHA-1: 360bbdf73bc9ee657bf45c7a381fd592b840bf5a SHA-256: 9e54e07f7bd1f8efbdf1370e78f3c856ae2b2a65f7954d2c243a330ae5140a24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, combined with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is part of a campaign to host and distribute malicious files via compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=explanation+letter+to+employee+pdf
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/napusepaxekogineduzegeta.pdf
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74529255683.pdf
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///filulalilinofu.pdf
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/saporu.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/dipepaxebosojajivobe.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46efd54cd841419c12f8863319f3c530/wosijubetibipapelexavufe.pdf
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/20250389688.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/86775506126.pdf
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/netedupar.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/36867357434.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6ql3p8ubb24oubi0m8j0p1456/gomuxujemovazakitu.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be92cc9f63aad97cc8af47d8137b4651/jixudegavowowu.pdf
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/97854036154.pdf
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88b22e081---97004729465.pdf
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/22750871161.pdf
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29fed027669a32f01398c24c98103ecf/21043115824.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d7da79235---datiti.pdf
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnh0qvkvvtrd4dhevajmfs33m6/rufusaxaletexuva.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oki07unkcak03nqtu78feih8if/26216469881.pdf
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/nazutonojadejuweva.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3723846c78cbfaa394b781d9771295b8/17367437189.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce86037331d---66954141170.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0b4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0B4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cb.bin
1f54cba33859a06eeda06eb4f726da23bd04544e9f8a78ba266628bedaee2870
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CB 10688 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f14e.bin
353b1d7df12e2e74cb4deacad519e37e91bedceaf4fb34e8723363a3dee43c7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14E 16940 bytes