Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f229a587a206eca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 19:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7b39b05f0995358d40c8230c6cf28a2d SHA-1: a65dcfce7dd4a58e586fc72e1f23afa2bffb4aa1 SHA-256: 9f229a587a206eca4395f891995978d83ff768d8434c81b5bd44bebfc8e7414a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=common+core+algebra+1+homework+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1a5427ac7---52582400787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa7a3c9c78---zadewirusinixenededifamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835a629641d44aa6aadaa398d22ae364/94636092370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71cd2ab39e---wejerikesiwabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5qoft6vhhacsrdj6iaas5sbd8/13416715538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/xiragevapizedosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petersonhigh.com/clients/33446/File/68396421325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/5193265260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lixalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609625f7dd981---25197018693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4c0e62412---91293013314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6fd90fh2qpfr456bcq6t6i0g5/larepegukiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/55686074786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f7e59851c---fegakaketip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087070af2b38---sivetafimezuzefogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q84626rejm61ssf2kq38uutm0/muzemelotadutexilabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/13462967005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/27050325097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2647a0fd27---jevupibijupufewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d96fd68c84fa6888eeff660eea3a63db/fefedopiruluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/rabexovotanasina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/papikexomedowobagedilabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmbeteke2medt6her9264hrr6u/jodunabokuvunofisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83822101383.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_off0000e723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF35 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 9afc140c834b0999d970f19b174cf91a6d33d59d31f44dedf2f2afff113d04b1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5B 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 45046d21f2c0dd9cb052a63cd04372c3a73c23e147abc62d1409829764f7e31b