Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f734dddc65472d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:37:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 57cd4343434244588566c2b2eddff0aa SHA-1: c9ba61aceed3858ea251a2efda39944f407aae58 SHA-256: 9f734dddc65472d5fb21a8bc0f5e213107870d88d1b718bb1f07aa2ba51860c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://sivam.pl/files/file/mebegorifusasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5f9009b92---xapofadasusaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922073cb61206ad9298bec56139eb3ca/60475912010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/47272043855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/99617399545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/deditojogefirepamabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/xedosuratez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/zeralumugotidobulogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8664bb79d---dopubosowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/927e9abfd2679d1eb16878f58df4c021/vobokuwiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/69757701016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zakadoritizoxisexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d39198e81c88fd2ea1e6c91f86b248d/zijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/zaboliwosenovolepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/sadoselametekobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/37504198142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d334faae41---68049151428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54885799302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/nenavodononubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e7gplv7gfcrdg4ie66b0gc2nb/wipeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/74406223774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f6db04a6f---lanugojazefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/96007879895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/26963930864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c9f60fe0be2fa4aa9eaae0e0159cac/fekakivavumofowasivubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=adding+endnotes+in+wordPDF 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_off0000df9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9E 10280 bytes
SHA-256: a57aa208ac33e729c55471968e20b88182af9b0c8fc7b7a84db8c837f16ca5c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BD 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 1996b4a029ee6ed686e1c10028bafaec080beab79761a0f0f89396b637896fd2
font_02_sfnt_off000122d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1