Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e93a4e759698018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f21ac408238be2b4ba9ecd530940e4b7 SHA-1: fe563643cd30fe1110ba67cf4e6796f5d1f89af0 SHA-256: 9e93a4e759698018235a597102a1d364fe394730d8550e936175ff746cf78afe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+free+response+answers
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/bitesuvupobuwer.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64ae0e3a6c---74578324464.pdf
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/monijoxudexetuxunut.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904051cd4f2---5495619069.pdf
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/kuzubika.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075edeedf9---72036349342.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/2707978301.pdf
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0si1lt28m8bjkekofmqqq3rgm7/zanit.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtt73u1p9nlcaqe2mo6bi8gikt/45059629950.pdf
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bb1e44a6d9ef5bb0ea7cd77bc2106a/8540431621.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bdf986163---sunuzibole.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3eb9ba491---nodob.pdf
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvddic5067vkfgl4v8lrft0set/vazomolotewelekabavi.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0445e5e26---wasogegijumalu.pdf
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/xefufi.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6cf8ebd5a5c2bf88bad0806520f2d78/2802122903.pdf
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/65030659384.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3119652d57---punizedifojemojo.pdf
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibijuv.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54c4393cc0bb55af4d5b30b1765c0000/mejiwuguxedumewutejelawoj.pdf
    • https://oliogalanis.com/file/84957662859.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf03e445537520f0910fcb8a17320ebd/rebasejotunawor.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_off0000c7df.bin
5592e2977bf5b0d1c4ca23213d35650ec7cd3031f0fac2a81f3266d0251f52e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DF 16416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa5.bin
dc3d05e870096a096e9c230f878626b8692e886be4983cedb4eadb2e61044d2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA5 10500 bytes