Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7bf8800b00e7b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 03:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: af2c627f822356c6821cb854af733567 SHA-1: 41994ffabf0279579d764fa77126da8bda2712aa SHA-256: 9e7bf8800b00e7b95e7676a51202eea286938b271bb1f27d2e08c53bf4c911fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques, likely involving embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harvard+business+school+case+study+method+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/64869968271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e947d05f4---60147960803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/zafonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/sisirimotupame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/58112771150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dca7bd81e8fb45e1a2af10e76490843/peluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc34b3a6d7---nujutezuzikupejuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/44777325625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/fodobobixolule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22ef64f9ee---21807341288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24vskbd8ejoifh5fe4mfkcoe94/89385196707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/zalebonipevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv8lefgbrqk2p2e3lkobss5h0d/89686805294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6a47b40b8---puvurunujapupaluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e77cb82bc742cf53eea4fef2b388af3/54559913119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e98d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98D 5656 bytes
SHA-256: cbdeacbbeb3061d0070ae66d3a73caa43c8a652d56b4032f58f9d6929d170db1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAA 11264 bytes
SHA-256: ecf6e1aa68871401598522dd7055dc4e28981f64e35fa0f043536d7419e0b6c1