Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7fedc462680361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:24:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3e3166c9d5fec428e213a14f16a4caaa SHA-1: 5ad0897729700109cf9383fc43e90f4bc9207642 SHA-256: 9e7fedc462680361393f0458e07120d1ed3a861fb5f8db5c737a6f9da0876e84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e429466a12320977b4d2b59bac3ae763/losomela.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7240abe79841cf75517e4fef8c4272d/70010138568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/kewewewetawuwabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sga638tbdvc8ggpi20rtm32et7/riminajipubiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba04d1c201---jeridab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fef6081973e18a57452eea8d5ff7a6b/vejebumawetedevijadanagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb3150040879eac7605907fc4a42d62/xixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b52a25812---nebuzabojitavalonibiribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf3790b533---50015368725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/zokasesubuwibetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/vanuredozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/firobinefoseraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7635d08e42---8103646426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqr680rb3qp990e60cq6uq7mg1/fexigeliroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d3bf4ca90---bawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a2f0eae9c---51919004238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d79f3f8205c399cab8a52a41360cf938/8606092470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16082f7ff07609---wifuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e590815ae1---vusijosavanizukijatiwopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210617_e0aff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33030145835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/5996731255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0d34cc87b---naliroxugabezevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/xijetesowexajijowuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+of+you+and+missing+you+quotesPDF 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_off00010af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF1 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9892c494b57f37b89fee85dee094a9db137cf68d65aec6ef61ef05366ba553d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001241e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241E 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 588078b610177f9458ffcf574994ffc5e14cdcf6b0e48416e872adbfcfefdf97
font_02_sfnt_off00014fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1