Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f0fb745df775073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 796d607695b418844ebce8b5f36a0abb SHA-1: 52b39ef053479bf5e28d1307f7387f55523aeffe SHA-256: 9f0fb745df775073a5abd75e43b7c545f8a79e3550614b1c87572b8f271d82ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests the PDF itself is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sing+to+me+missio PDF link annotation
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd28039b74---78733799917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43dbf48b46---19899615235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/68928604987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33fa21e8720099ec3add88c51a4fa761/lesufomurodabokenepakigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985b0eb48718f11c41d158b334d782c7/10955422744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762e86bc8eb---83624046303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ba9712a57a381976d18adc438f0b5c/78035705421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qksq63njalitabeudqpag5loss/logopariduviwelolikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7d513b735---68965705578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1a32b87578cf0b375f67a97a6e2727/negepeduriboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/63823506806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c1ba37f6c---78602933334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f68f49fcce---925660954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/15426987219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajavaremivubemesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874223b217e---25898872554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/89775517041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c755144b3f---94037263361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/remezaxeroboxugofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960whs.com/clients/7/73/73384dfd0d582a2861cf356c55c3c578/File/25334868101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd93e8de6e7c4c04b0e5327f33c8ce0f/juzalobotepofoxusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/24984899771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fahakuiksubk698b0s198rmau2/89391121810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/79994483327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68573bde674d0485d7833cc3e3686216/gukomobizemimase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949b4e78ca2---fedimifanuro.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_off0000e1a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BA 23028 bytes
SHA-256: b360366ab092da65df3f649feb3d2dc46ae9b8953c970ee433cdbea05c67d2a7
font_02_sfnt_off00013159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13159 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 7a5d6b4fc34410cd694e3d83ed715aed38b95aa83197517b7bb99eab2737f587