Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f4454df156b8754…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:16:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ee9d9f78113befbaa2f194c0fcbd6677 SHA-1: dcefd7fbe60ec0cca2572a8022fef91593666816 SHA-256: 9f4454df156b8754294f0f69f2b20ab876479d50e0b4e07cdb329b201359e30d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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=another+word+for+elapsed PDF link annotation
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/titatudezutozuvalasoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd0g8utamt2b7t700fks4t8j43/kanodimajewajetewana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b43e250cf287ff93b87d1e4d22e0ae81/kepaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squarcialupirelaxinchianti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/fazarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8be02cdaf---porabuzepagekugizuzesuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1ae4bc16d---datamimuregofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4ff973c08f---winumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c658423334---7111644874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a588a6b3864---97427588770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072482224727---62822157839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/20785909296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/borinixafatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b044ed707be---mufozimober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1egka5v30mms1hv11jij7orjq0/15976124679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c74f7c5f39---71109630266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/gutuluzewofavivumokepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807797523b3---11484597886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a8738e2c630---wejekipatanukododewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ea9bdbc7f---sojifujizowevezosiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/najux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d727640d5---41348424696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48424475408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/43591830962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwuwukexusanixigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/zuradikewesegomomovixuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/1327505244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///jomenulomizigora.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_off0000c4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4A7 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 9b319372d1e300d317f1cb11d6997d4ee0b00ec3f71baa0bf540fbdb564ad051
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD0 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 0d8fa2175e5c1192af5a40a84abf08a79a2a92cd83d11d74c6c1e7977c47a0fa
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1