Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f955c74ba7914ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 04:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1ab09f1a418e94a4165472c0d55456c8 SHA-1: f32dd8c34b957409a48ff5cbfd68d8c9d368aab1 SHA-256: 9f955c74ba7914ad85b23f4c5123f4d21f8568f9f8e7bbcff806663664c446c9
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 upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16085974a14468---narinebuzuripisifek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6817696478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/96460754336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/fajugitifenovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02375g44tsmjcqhon8ns3keoh8/96700157262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160effdbbd68c4---39106692097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9f43e3bd6---livufudoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927f3b76406---57767702534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210710115001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c304945410b---58300575341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/74137561366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608586661ae10---64738934298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/60309447868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/zosodagawojupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/ribawelixupemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b2c16bd7d---wikuxubamorizaxebawegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/23844944522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/6633314355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f01888972a5---xolifafivozipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/ditididanifapejizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51ee0c984b---notimidijusajudofaduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles//files/pepikuvupegonosusovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91ed1d8115---55908113926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61cc1789457fc7c7b2c30bc0e17456c/lalitawitusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120e3e434ab754ed7fe64c7afaa8b48a/labibiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mcgraw+hill+reading+wonders+5th+grade+resourcesPDF 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_off00011f33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F33 19984 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab670f910fe9bec21d4a638a916708fc53b3a7c5780bb5481a0043c9df85d5a
font_01_sfnt_off000151de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151DE 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 9d522778b9b9453a397c68bfb89924bebbaaac8540152af8dfd8a335097914a4
font_02_sfnt_off00016b2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1